Consciousness Quote by Simone de Beauvoir

The universe has become not only conscious and aware of itself but capable in some respects of choosing its path into the future--though all…

— Thomas Nagel

Enlightenment is not the process of learning 'new' information. It is the process of 'reminding' ourselves that the answers are already 'within our consciousness'.…

— Eric Allen

The time is probably not far distant when music will stand revealed perchance as the mightiest of the arts, and certainly as the one…

— Hugh Reginald Haweis

You don't meditate to experiment with altered states of consciousness or whatever else. You meditate only to perceive by yourself that everything is within…

— Daniel Odier

My own emotional health issues were bullying me during the time I was drafting that poem. It was a pressure I couldn't pin down…

— Gregory Pardlo

Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to the fore unknown aspects of our own self. Our…

— Ella Maillart

Well, think of what I’m doing to you right now. For me I’m the self, and you’re the object. For you, of course, it’s…

— Haruki Murakami

I really think that if there's any one enemy to human creativity, especially creative writing, it's self-consciousness.

— Andre Dubus

Great acting can be almost a psychotic mix of self-consciousness and unself-consciousness. And thats the terrible conflict. You have to be free to jump…

— Alec Baldwin

Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.

— Ray Bradbury

“I’ve come to think that flourishing consists of putting yourself in situations in which you lose self-consciousness and become fused with other people, experiences,…

— David Brooks

I suggest that just as self-consciousness is the goal for all the subhuman forms of life, and as group consciousness, or the consciousness of…

— Alice Bailey