Best consciousness & animal Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I got into animals by drawing hair follicles. I liked drawing hair, and from that I got into feathers and fur, then into images of animals. The patterning is the same, but the proportions of the body change from one animal to the next. A lot of it is just geometry and consciousness.”

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Author:Kiki Smith

“About the book of Job: If it were today, God might be asking "How does DNA carry traits? How are instincts passed on in animals? How does consciousness arise in the human body and brain, and what is consciousness? What is dark matter? How did the big bang happen? Why does the speed of light appear to be absolute? Is cold fusion possible? How do you program a TV remote control?”

“The classical argument for why a supposedly decent and moral creature like Homo sapiens can mistreat and even extirpate other species rests upon an extreme position in a continuum. The Cartesian tradition, formulated explicitly in the seventeenth century, but developed in "folk" and other versions throughout human history no doubt, holds that other animals are little more than unfeeling machines, with only humans enjoying "consciousness," however defined.”

“When we say 'time', I believe we mean at least two things. We mean changes. And we mean something unchangeable. We mean something that moves . but against an unmoving background. And vice versa.Animals can sense changes. But consciousness of time involves the double sense of constancy and change. Which can only be attributed to those who give expression to it. And that can only be done through language, and only man has language.The perception of time and language are inextricably bound up with one another.”

Men Giving Believe Mean Two Done Moving Language I Believe Animal Consciousness Expression Perception Bounds Vices Backgrounds Two Things Vice Versa Constancy Unchangeable

Book:Borderliners: A Novel

Source: Borderliners: A Novel

“[Children are] like talking animals. Their consciousness is so different from ours that they constitute a different species. They don't have to be particularly interesting children; just the fact that they are children is sufficient. They don't know what anything is, so they have to make it up. No matter how dull they are, they still have to figure things out for themselves.”

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Author:Fran Lebowitz

“Man is the "ethical animal" ethical in potentiality even if, unfortunately, not in actuality. His capacity for ethical judgment like freedom, reason and the other unique characteristics of the human being is based upon his consciousness of himself.”

Ifs Men Humans Reason Human Beings Animal Consciousness Judgment Unique Capacity Characteristics Ethical Actuality Unique Characteristics

Book:Man's Search for Himself

Source: Man's Search for Himself

“Success, failure, pain, small furry animals, household products, freeways, Star Wars systems - all are interlinked in the dance of tantra, the disco of the mind, the ballroom of cosmic consciousness.”

Mind War Philosophy Pain Stars Animal Consciousness Products Cosmic Household Success Failure Tantra Disco Ballroom Freeways Cosmic Consciousness Furry

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We humans are herd animals of the monkey tribe, not natural individuals as lions are. Our individuality is partial and restless; the stream of consciousness that we call 'I' is made of shifting elements that flow from our group and back to our group again. Always we seek to be ourselves and the herd together, not One against the herd.”

Humans Made Together Individual Natural Animal Consciousness Groups Elements Flow Individuality Streams Lions Tribes Monkeys Restless Shifting Herds Stream Of Consciousness

Author:Anna Louise Strong

“The consciousness of the animal begins to change when it interacts with a human who's gone beyond thinking. It's not only the animals assisting us; we are also assisting the animals.”

Thinking Humans Animal Consciousness Gone Assisting

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“The animals certainly like to be close to humans, especially as humans go through the shift in consciousness.”

Humans Animal Consciousness

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“The animal is one with its life activity. It does not distinguish the activity from itself. It is its activity. But man makes hislife activity itself an object of his will and consciousness. He has a conscious life activity. It is not a determination with which he is completely identified.”

Men Doe Animal Consciousness Objects Activity Conscious Determination Humankind

Book:Marx's Concept of Man: Including 'Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts'

Source: Marx's Concept of Man: Including 'Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts'

“The line that I am urging as today's conventional wisdom is not a denial of consciousness. It is often called, with more reason, arepudiation of mind. It is indeed a repudiation of mind as a second substance, over and above body. It can be described less harshly as an identification of mind with some of the faculties, states, and activities of the body. Mental states and events are a special subclass of the states and events of the human or animal body.”

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Author:Willard Van Orman Quine

“More than anything else, kindness is a way of life. It is a way of living and walking through life. It is a way of dealing with all that is-our selves, our bodies, our dreams and goals, our neighbors, our competitors, our enemies, our air, our earth, our animals, our space, our time, and our very consciousness. Do we treat all creation with kindness? Isn't all creation holy and divine?”

Source: The Healing Power of Kindness

“Inwardness is the characteristic feature of the vegetable rather than the animal approach to existence. The animals move, migrate and swarm, while plants hold fast. Plants live in a dimension characterised by solid state, the fixed and the enduring. If there is movement in the consciousness of plants then it must be the movement of spirit and attention in the domain of vegetal imagination. (...) This is the truth that the shamans have always known and practiced. Awareness of the green side of mind was called Veriditas by the twelfth century visionary Hildegard Von Bingen.”

“Being a physicist, not a philosopher, I have devised an entirely new theory of consciousness, allowing one to numerically calculate the level of consciounsess of humans and even animals.”

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Author:Michio Kaku

“I think that we are supernatural. We are unique. We're the only animals in the universe that we know of that actually have self-consciousness, a sense of time and our own mortality.”

Thinking Knows Self Universe Animal Consciousness Unique Mortality Self Consciousness

Author:Anne Rice

“Let us meditate until we perceive the Infinite Christ reigning in our own hearts. Let us learn to love those who love us not; and to forgive those who do ill against us. Let us break all our mental boundaries of color, creed, and nationality, and receive all - even our inanimate and animal brothers - in the endless, all embracing arms of our Christ Consciousness. This will be a true and fitting celebration of the coming of Jesus Christ to this earth.”

“Revolutionary consciousness is to be found among the most ruthlessly exploited masses: animals, trees, water, air, grasses”

Found Water Animal Consciousness Air Tree Mass Grass Revolutionary

Author:Gary Snyder

“Better to be an animal than a man, an insect than an animal, a plant than an insect, and so on. Salvation? Whatever diminishes the kingdom of consciousness and compromises its supremacy.”

Men Animal Consciousness Salvation Plant Kingdoms Compromise Diminish Insects Supremacy

Book:The Trouble with Being Born

Source: The Trouble with Being Born

“The most basic act of awareness or knowing that we can demonstrate in science. I postulate that that is the very basis of why we're conscious at all, that it is this relationship at the quantum level as matter evolves into more complex form, including plants and animals and living substance and ourselves, that this area of consciousness as an awareness becomes more and more complex.”

Matter Form Animal Levels Consciousness Knowing Awareness Conscious Areas Bases Plant Complexes Including Evolve Substance Quantum Plants And Animals

Author:Edgar Mitchell

“I want to put it back together now, this artistic expression that contains religious feeling. I want to investigate: What was the origin? What's happened in the human mind? Can we trace back the moment of the creation of human consciousness? And why did only humans gain consciousness, not other animals? So, evolution? I don't know whether or not I can believe evolution. Maybe we wait for another 100,000 years and then apes get consciousness.”

“The divine therapy helps us integrate our animal nature with the new possibilities of rational consciousness.”

Helping Animal Consciousness Possibility Divine Rational Therapy Integrating New Possibilities

Author:Thomas Keating

“Despite one or two minority appeals our society is not outraged at man's unremitting use of the animal world. Ecologists and environmentalists may talk of "ecological consciousness" or "environmental responsibility" but seldom, if ever, is this responsibility articulated towards other non-human species in particular.”

Source: Animal rights: a Christian assessment of man's treatment of animals

“It has been an obsession of human beings to create a hierarchy that places the human species on top and lumps all the "other animals" together beneath us. The resulting "speciesism" allows us to look upon animals as less deserving of all manner of rights and considerations than humans. To support this lower status, humans have argued that animals act instinctually; don't have souls; don't feel physical pain like we do; and lack self-consciousness, cognitive intelligence, emotional feelings, morality, and ethics.”

“I passionately feel that as long as we view ourselves as superior and other animals as exploitable our consciousness will remain stuck in a level of ignorance that will disallow a full realization of the truth underlying reality.”

Feels Long Reality Animal Levels Views Consciousness Ignorance Stuck Superiors Realization

Author:Sharon Gannon

“I have seen what is to come in this world and I understand how I fit in. I fit in protecting the animals because many more are to die before we all stand up. I see who I have become because I had to die to be able to let go of consciousness.”

World Able Dies Animal Consciousness This World Fit Letting Go

Author:Timothy Treadwell

“The best test to know whether an entity is real or fictional is the test of suffering. A nation cannot suffer, feel pain or fear, or has no consciousness. Even if it loses a war, the soldier suffers, the civilians suffer, but the nation cannot suffer. Similarly, a corporation cannot suffer, when it loses its value, it doesn't suffer. All these things, they're fictions. If people bear in mind this distinction, it could improve the way we treat one another and the other animals. It's not a good idea to cause suffering to real entities in the service of fictional stories.”

People Mind War Real Pain Suffering Values Animal Consciousness Soldier

Author:Esther Rantzen

“There have only been about a half dozen genuinely important events in the four-billion-year saga of life on Earth: single-celled life, multicelled life, differentiation into plants and animals, movement of animals from water to land, and the advent of mammals and consciousness.”

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Author:Elon Musk

“Consciousness surely does not depend on language. Babies, many animals, and patients robbed of speech by brain damage are not insensate robots; they have reactions like ours that indicate that someone's home.”

Doe Home Language Animal Brain Consciousness Baby Depends Speech Patient Reactions Damage Robots

Author:Steven Pinker

“Do you wake up as I do, having forgotten what it is that hurts or where, until you move? There is a second of consciousness that is clean again. A second that is you, without memory or experience, the animal warm and waking into a brand new world. There is the sun dissolving the dark, and light as clear as music, filling the room where you sleep and the other rooms behind your eyes.”

World Light Eye Moving Hurt Memories Dark Sleep Animal Rooms Behinds Consciousness Sun Clear Wake Up Clean Forgotten Warm Brands Waking New World Filling Brand New Dissolving

Author:Jeanette Winterson

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