“And I believe that if 100 million people became embodiments of peace, the world would transform, because consciousness is a collective phenomenon. And what we see as good and evil is the balance between forces.” PeopleIfsWorldBelieveEvilForceI BelieveConsciousnessMillionsBalanceGood And EvilCollectivesPhenomenonEmbodiment Author:Deepak Chopra
“There is but one indefectibly certain truth , and that is the truth that pyrrhonistic scepticism itself leaves standing, the truth that the present phenomenon of consciousness exists.” CertainConsciousnessStandingPhenomenonScepticism Book:Pragmatism and Other Writings Source: Pragmatism and Other Writings
“The ascription of an unconscious intentional phenomenon to a system implies that the phenomenon is in principle accessible to consciousness.” ConsciousnessPrinciplesUnconsciousPhenomenon Author:John Searle
“The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its violent eruptions thus legitimized by revealing their cause - the parasitism of the Jews. Thus it gives us the formula of the scientific solution for the problem of Judaism, which in order to realize we have only to apply.” PeopleGivingProblemOrderCausesRealizingConsciousnessSolutionsInstinctJewViolentPhenomenonFormulasSatisfyingJudaismRevealingEnlighteningAnti SemitismEruption Author:A. C. Cuza
“It's rare that we actively and consciously 'forget'; most of the time we have simply forgotten, with no consciousness of having forgotten. In individuals, the phenomenon is called 'denial'; in entire cultures and nations, it's usually called 'history.” CultureIndividualNationsForgetConsciousnessHistoryForgottenDenialPhenomenon Author:Joyce Carol Oates
“every subjective phenomenon is essentially connected with a single point of view, and it seems inevitable that an objective, physical theory will abandon that point of view.” SeemsViewsConsciousnessTheoryConnectedPoint Of ViewObjectivesInevitableAbandonPhenomenonSubjectiveSubjectivity Book:Mortal Questions Source: Mortal Questions
“Consciousness is a fascinating but elusive phenomenon: it is impossible to specify what it is, what it does, or why it evolved. Nothing worth reading has been written on it.” DoeHas BeensReadingConsciousnessImpossibleWrittenFascinatingPhenomenonElusiveWorth Reading Author:Stuart Sutherland
“The accessibility and effective immortality of actual information is a magnificent phenomenon, a beautiful extension of human consciousness. It is too bad people find so many ways to abuse the internet, but that's just how things are.” PeopleWayHumansBeautifulConsciousnessInformationInternetAbuseImmortalityPhenomenonMagnificentExtensionsBad PeopleHuman ConsciousnessAccessibility Author:Marilynne Robinson
“One way of saying that is that there is an objective reality beyond our mind. A way to think of this in a philosophic sense is to look between the two great extremes: the idealist philosophy that says mind and consciousness is the only thing and that matter is simply an illusion, or a Maya, the product of mind; and the other extreme, a strict materialist determinism, which says that mind and consciousness is a secondary phenomenon of the collision of matter.” ThinkingWayMindLooksTwoMatterPhilosophyRealityConsciousnessProductsIllusionExtremesObjectivesOne WayPhenomenonStrictIdealistDeterminismCollisionPhilosophicObjective Reality Author:Edgar Mitchell
“Art always helps religion; it became an inseparable phenomenon when human beings gained consciousness.” HumansArtHelpingHuman BeingsConsciousnessPhenomenonInseparable Author:Hiroshi Sugimoto
“Except in the areas of civil rights and medical marijuana, the legacy of the sixties counterculture has been largely superficial. Still, though the light has dimmed and gone underground, something in me would like to think the sixties phenomenon was a dress rehearsal for a grander, wider leap in consciousness yet to come.” ThinkingHas BeensStillsLightConsciousnessGoneRightsAreasDressesMedicalCivil RightsLegacyPhenomenonLeapMarijuanaSixtySuperficialRehearsalMedical MarijuanaCounterculture Author:Tom Robbins
“Dreaming is a phenomenon of purely individual consciousness, and consequently impossible to thoroughly deconstruct by a community of researchers. But dreaming matters.” MatterDreamIndividualCommunityConsciousnessImpossiblePhenomenonResearchers Author:Andrew Weil