consciousness Quotes

“For instance, men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by which they are conditioned.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

topic:freedom consciousness

“Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.”

― George Orwell, 1984

topic:reality mind consciousness

“There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it.”

― H. G. Wells, The Time Machine

topic:time consciousness

“Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.”

― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

topic:suffering consciousness

“suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground

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“The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action.”

― Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do

topic:self action consciousness

“In certain diseased conditions consciousness is a mere spark, without memory of the past or thought of the future, and with the present narrowed down to some one simple emotion or sensation of the body.”

― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

topic:memory consciousness

“Desire is appetite with consciousness thereof.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

topic:desire consciousness

“It is that our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.”

― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

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“It's hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness.”

― Carl Sagan, Contact

topic:killing consciousness

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