“The process of education takes place in the field of consciousness; the prerequisite to complete education is therefore the full development of consciousness - enlightenment. Knowledge is not the basis of enlightenment, enlightenment is the basis of knowledge.” ProcessConsciousnessFieldsDevelopmentEnlightenmentBasesPrerequisites Author:Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
“While the climate crisis gathers front-page attention on a regular basis, people - even those who profess great environmental consciousness - continue to eat fish as if it were a sustainable practice.” PeopleIfsAttentionConsciousnessPracticeFrontsPagesBasesCrisisClimateEnvironmentalFishes Author:Daniel Pauly
“The arguments for immortality, weak when you take them one by one, are no more cogent when you take them together... For my part, I cannot see how consciousness can persist when its physical basis has been destroyed, and I am too sure of the interconnection of my body and my mind to think that any survival of my my consciousness apart from my body would be in any sense a survival of myself.” ThinkingMindHas BeensBodyWould BeTogetherConsciousnessAtheismSurvivalArgumentWeakBasesDestroyedImmortalityPersistInterconnection Author:W. Somerset Maugham
“The distinction between right and wrong ("la distinction du bien et du mal", Fr.), is nothing else than their unyielding (or implacable) opposition; thus the moral consciousness is an innate and intimate revelation of the absolute, which goes beyond (or goes pass, or exceed) every empirical data (or given information). It is only on these principles that we will be able to establish ("pourront être édifiées", Fr.) the real basis of morality.” RealAbleGivenConsciousnessMoralPrinciplesInformationMoralityBasesAbsolutesDataIntimateRevelationsDistinctionOppositionInnateExceedUnyielding Author:African Spir
“If society is to progress on a truly humanistic basis, without being subject to mental epidemics and virulent social diseases to which the subconscious falls an easy victim, the personal consciousness of every individual should be cultivated to the highest degree possible.” IfsShouldFallIndividualSocialEasyConsciousnessProgressSubjectsDiseaseDegreesHighestBasesVictimSubconsciousEpidemicsHumanistic Author:Boris Sidis
“Education is a regulation of the process of coming to share in the social consciousness; and that the adjustment of individual activity on the basis of this social consciousness is the only sure method of social reconstruction.” IndividualSocialProcessConsciousnessShareActivityBasesMethodRegulationAdjustmentReconstructionSocial Consciousness Book:The Early Works, 1882-1898: 1895-1898. Early essays Source: The Early Works, 1882-1898: 1895-1898. Early essays
“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.” MatterFormAnimalLevelsConsciousnessKnowingAwarenessConsciousAreasBasesPlantComplexesIncludingEvolveSubstanceQuantumPlants And Animals Author:Edgar Mitchell
“For example, the insurance industries and the big banks are absolutely euphoric now - on the business pages they don't even conceal it - because they've succeeded in coming out of the crisis even stronger than they were before, and in a better position to lay the basis for the next crisis. But they don't care, because they'll get bailed out again. That's class consciousness with a vengeance.” BigsCareNextConsciousnessClassExamplePositionIndustryPagesBasesStrongerCrisisLaysDon't CareComing OutVengeanceEuphoricClass Consciousness Author:Noam Chomsky
“I think that feminism permits women to speak among themselves, instead of simply being resentful, having personal complaints, which get them nowhere and which make them sick and ill-tempered, depressive and poison the lives of their husbands and children. It's much better to arrive at a collective consciousness of this problem, which is both a kind of therapy and the basis for a struggle.” ThinkingKindChildrenProblemSpeakConsciousnessStruggleFeminismHusbandSickBasesIllTherapyPoisonCollectivesPermitComplaintsResentfulDepressiveCollective ConsciousnessIll Tempered Author:Simone de Beauvoir