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“Now, if the cooperation of some thousands of millions of cells in our brain can produce our consciousness, a true singularity, the idea becomes vastly more plausible that the cooperation of humanity, or some sections of it, may determine what Comte calls a Great Being.”

Ifs May Ideas Humanity Brain Consciousness Millions Produce Determine Cells Cooperation Sections Plausible Singularity

Author:John B. S. Haldane

“We never know the reality of things: we see only what we are aware of. It is our consciousness that determines the shape of the world around us -- its size, motion and meaning.”

Knows World Reality Consciousness Shapes Size Determine

Book:Two Women in One

Source: Two Women in One

“Even if the constants which economists wish to determine were less numerous, and the method of experiment more accessible, we should still be faced with the fact that the constants themselves are different at different times. The gravitation constant is the same always. But the economic constants-these elasticities of demand and supply-depending, as they do, upon human consciousness, are liable to vary. The constitution of the atom, as it were, and not merely its position, changes under the influence of environment.”

“There are many things that are still uncertain and that probably nobody knows, because so many factors determine what form the transformation of consciousness on our planet takes.”

Knows Stills Form Consciousness Planets Transformation Determine Factors Uncertain Our Planet Nobody Knows

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“But, in history, practical usefulness never determines the moral value of an achievement. Only the person who increases the knowledge humanity has about itself and enhances its creative consciousness permanently enriches humanity.”

Persons Values Humanity Consciousness Moral Knowledge Creative Achievement Increase Determine Practicals Usefulness Moral Values

Author:Stefan Zweig

“We are internally related to everything, not [just] externally related. Consciousness is an internal relationship to the whole, we take in the whole, and we act toward the whole. Whatever we have taken in determines basically what we are. Wholeness is a kind of attitude or approach to the whole of life. If we can have a coherent approach to reality then reality will respond coherently to us.”

Ifs Kind Whole Reality Consciousness Attitude Taken Approach Determine Related Internals Wholeness

Author:David Bohm

“Our consciousness, our ideas, our frame of reference and our belief system determine whether we go to the river of life with a teaspoon, a cup, a bucket or a barrel.”

Ideas Belief Consciousness Rivers Determine Cups Barrels Buckets Belief Systems Frame Of Reference Teaspoons

Book:Beyond Positive Thinking: A No-Nonsense Formula for Getting the Results You Want

Source: Beyond Positive Thinking: A No-Nonsense Formula for Getting the Results You Want

“No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.”

Way May Philosophy School Consciousness Conscious Determine Antithesis

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“Not what you do, but how you do what you do determines whether you are fulfilling your destiny. And how you do what you do is determined by your state of consciousness.”

States Consciousness Destiny Determine Determined Fulfilling Our Destiny Your Destiny States Of Consciousness Fulfilling Your Destiny

Book:A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“The factor that frequently determines whether people are going to make a particular choice is not the factor that counsels wisely or the one that leads to the greatest economic benefit. It's the one that's top of the consciousness in the moment.”

People Moments Choices Consciousness Economic Determine

Author:Robert Cialdini