Consciousness Quote by Martin Heidegger

Our own self-awareness arises not in the Cartesian cogito, but in our finding ourselves in relation to other beings in whom we both actively…

— John Milbank

The notion of a conscious model of oneself as an individual entity actively trying to establish epistemic relations to the world and to oneself,…

— Thomas Metzinger

We all think of ourselves as our subjectivity, our consciousness.

— Vijay Seshadri

“Nothing could be more alien to contemplation than the cogito ergo sum of Descartes. “I think, therefore I am.” This is the declaration of…

— Thomas Merton

In conscious life, we achieve some sense of ourselves as reasonably unified, coherent selves, and without this action would be impossible. But all this…

— Terry Eagleton

Egoic consciousness is the one we all normally operate with, until we are told there is something else! Every culture teaches egoic consciousness in…

— Richard Rohr

As a holistic being you shatter the illusion of your separateness and reveal your connection to everything. This empowers you in a way that…

— Wayne Dyer

Central to Jungian psychology is the concept of "individuation," the process whereby a person discovers and evolves his Self, as opposed to his ego.…

— Morris Berman

Self-consciousness is really a form of egotism.

— Gloria Naylor

Self-reflection, or - what comes to the same thing - the urge to individuation, gathers together what is scattered and multifarious and exalts it…

— Carl Jung

Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.

— Max Planck

“Consciousness (conscientia) is participated knowledge, is co-feeling, and co-feeling is com-passion. Love personalizes all that it loves. Only by personalizing it can we fall…

— Miguel de Unamuno