Home / Topics / Consciousness Quotes

Consciousness Quotes

Browse 6772 quotes about Consciousness.

Consciousness Quotes

“The philosopher strives to find the liberating word, that is, the word that finally permits us to grasp what up to now has intangibly weighed down upon our consciousness.”

Philosophy Consciousness Strive Philosopher Permit Strife Liberating

Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein

“And yet, within her anxiety, secured there like a gemstone, she carries the cool and curious power of occasionally being able to see the world vividly. Clarity bursts upon her a spray of little stars. She understands this, and thinks of it as one of the tricks of consciousness; there is something almost luxurious about it.. The narrative maze opens and permits her to pass through. She may be crowded out of her own life - she knows this for a fact and has always know it - but she possesses, as a compensatory gift, the startling ability to draft alternative versions.”

Thinking Knows World May Littles Facts Able Stars Ability Consciousness Anxiety Tricks Versions Clarity Curious Alternatives Narrative Carrie Permit Crowded Spray Secured Mazes Luxurious

Author:Carol Shields

“I believe that reality is vastly richer than the cursory attention we usually give it permits us to understand. I like to write through a consciousness that allows me to suggest something of this richness.”

Giving Writing Believe Reality I Believe Attention Consciousness Permit Richness

Author:Marilynne Robinson

“If I use the word consciousness, in our lab, in our institute, what we mean is the special quality of mind, the special features that exist in the mind, that permit us to know, for example, that we, ourselves, exist, and that things exist around us.”

Ifs Knows Mind Mean Use Consciousness Quality Special Example Features Permit Institute Labs

Author:Antonio Damasio

“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.”

“A book is an attempt to make through permanent and to contribute to the great conversation conducted by authors of the past. […] The telegraph is suited only to the flashing of messages, each to be quickly replaced by a more up-to-date message. Facts push other facts into and then out of consciousness at speeds that neither permit nor require evaluation. (70)”

Book Facts Past Consciousness Conversation Messages Speed Permanent Permit Replaced Evaluation Telegraph Up To Date

Book:Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

Source: Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

“Only a man of integrity can possess the virtue of honesty, since only the faking of one’s consciousness can permit the faking of existence.”

Men Existence Consciousness Virtue Honesty Integrity Permit Man Of Integrity

Book:Journals of Ayn Rand

Source: Journals of Ayn Rand