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“We do not realize how deeply our starting assumptions affect the way we go about looking for and interpreting the data we collect. We should recognize that nonhuman organisms need not meet every new definition of human language, tool use, mind, or consciousness in order to have versions of their own that are worthy of serious study. We have set ourselves too much apart, grasping for definitions that will distinguish man from all other life on the planet. We must rejoin the great stream of life from whence we arose and strive to see within it the seeds of all we are and all we may become.”

Source: Kanzi: The Ape at the Brink of the Human Mind

“Usually when I drank too much, I could guess why I did so, the objective being to murder a state of consciousness that I didn't have the courage to sustain--a fear of heights, which sometimes during the carnival of the 1960s accompanied my attempts to transform the bourgeois journalist into an avant-garde novelist. The stepped-up ambition was a commonplace among the would-be William Faulkners of my generation; nearly always it resulted in commercial failure and literary embarrassment.”

“Below the incandescent stars / below the incandescent fruit, / the strange experience of beauty; / its existence is too much; / it tears one to pieces / and each fresh wave of consciousness / is poison.”

Stars Existence Consciousness Beauty Too Much Pieces Tears Strange Fruit Wave Poison

Book:Observations: Poems

Source: Observations: Poems

“Moral improvement (or perfecting) require an evolution leading to a higher consciousness, which is the true torch of life; it is what we have failed too much to appreciate, and that which would be fatal to fail to appreciate any longer ("pluslongtemps", Fr.); For if we do not take it upon ourselves to remedy in time to the moral colapse (or bankruptcy) that already threaten, the whole civilisation will risks to disappear.”

Ifs Whole Would Be Consciousness Moral Too Much Failing Risk Evolution Higher Appreciate Disappear Improvement Remedy Civilisation Torches Bankruptcy Higher Consciousness

Author:African Spir

“I often reflect on what an extraordinary time (pun intended) it is to be alive here in the beginning of the twenty-first century. It took life billions of years to get to this point. It took humans thousands of years to piece together a meaningful understanding of our cosmos, our planet and ourselves. Think how fortunate we are to know this much. But think also of all that's yet to be discovered. Here's hoping the deep answers to the deep questions-from the nature of consciousness to the origin of life-will be found in not too much more time.”

Source: Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation

“The universe is biased toward consciousness because the universe wants to be noticed. It's a way into existential hope that doesn't have too much cliché wrapped around it.”

Way Want Universe Consciousness Too Much Existential Biased

Author:John Green

“Endless drama in a group clouds consciousness. Too much noise overwhelms the senses. Continual input obscures genuine insight. Do not substitute sensationalism for learning.”

Consciousness Too Much Groups Drama Clouds Insight Senses Genuine Endless Noise Substitutes Input Sensationalism

Book:The Tao of Leadership: Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching Adapted for a New Age

Source: The Tao of Leadership: Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching Adapted for a New Age

“I do not think that the government, under the guise of some phony, alarmist, pseudo-scientific rhetoric, should attempt to control the evolution of consciousness. After all, if these things truly are consciousness-expanding, it doesn't take too much intelligence to realize that it is the absence of consciousness that is causing our flirtation with extinction and planetary disaster.”

Ifs Thinking Should Government Realizing Consciousness Too Much Evolution Absence Disaster Rhetoric Expanding Extinction Phony Guise Pseudo Flirtation Alarmists Consciousness Expanding

Author:Terence McKenna

“I am strongly convinced that not only too much consciousness but even any consciousness at all is a sickness.”

Consciousness Too Much Convinced Sickness

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“I can feel how an audience is reacting when I'm on a stage, but when you are on stage, your perception is distorted. That's something you just have to know. It's like pilots that fly at high Gs and they lose, sometimes, consciousness and hand/eye coordination and they just have to know that that's going to happen. They have to be trained to not try to do too much while they are doing that. So when you are on stage, you have to be aware that you are wrong about how it feels a lot of times.”

Knows Feels Trying I Can Sometimes Hands Happens Eye Loses Consciousness Audience Too Much Stage Perception Pilots Reacting Coordination

Author:Louis C. K.