Consciousness Quote by William S. Burroughs

Consciousness is the perception of what passes in man's own mind.

— John Locke

Outside and above the mind there is the play of a consciousness which is lighted by the higher Truth, but man is not conscious…

— Sri Aurobindo

You take the senses away, and there is no consciousness. Consciousness comes from experience.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive.

— Leo Tolstoy

It is through symbols that man consciously or unconsciously lives, works and has his being.

— Thomas Carlyle

Man's unconscious... contains all the patterns of life and behaviour inherited from his ancestors, so that every human child, prior to consciousness, is possessed…

— Carl Jung

“Modern man has the possibility of understanding the mechanism of consciousness, and marching directly towards his objective, with the will flexed to its maximum…

— Colin Wilson

Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

— Carl Jung

Just as man's physical existence was liberated when he grasped that 'nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed', so his consciousness will be liberated…

— Ayn Rand

The man who can articulate the movements of his inner life need no longer be a victim of himself, but is able slowly and…

— Henri Nouwen

Everything depends therefore on encountering thought at its source. Such thought is the reality of man's being, which achieved consciousness and understanding of itself…

— Karl Jaspers

Attaining consciousness is connected with the gradual liberation from mechanicalness, for man is fully and completely under mechanical laws.

— P.D. Ouspensky