Consciousness Quote by Seamus Heaney

In the study of consciousness you cannot explain anything verbally. You can only allude to, point in a general direction of.

— Frederick Lenz

Consciousness is the awareness that emerges out of the dialectical tension between possibilities and limitations.

— Rollo May

I worry that we don't have a very good definition of consciousness yet which makes it hard to tackle.

— Edward Boyden

“How can we enable the unconscious to realize itself? By granting it freedom of expression and then examining what it has expressed.”

— Anthony Stevens

...consciousness is a coherent whole, which is never static or complete, but which is in an unending process of movement and unfoldment.

— David Bohm

Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.

— Katherine Mansfield

“One job of the unconscious is to act as a workshop for rough-shaping ideas; crafting notions as new parts or tools become available; storing…

— Diane Ackerman

Here, the broader issues are already familiar, and discussion has focused at a more sophisticated and detailed level. Within the philosophy of mind, the…

— David Chalmers

See who is the subject; and this inquiry leads you to pure Consciousness beyond the subject.

— Ramana Maharshi

The unconscious is structured like a language.

— Jacques Lacan

“We are consciousness examining and expressing itself so that it can become increasingly aware of its infinite capacity for being and evolving.”

— Jay Woodman

We have said that consciousness is an operation rather than a thing, a repository, or a function. It operates by way of analogy, by…

— Julian Jaynes