Best philosophical & consciousness Quotes

“We're cognizant, curious beings, capable of philosophical thought, nuclear physics, repeating Nerf weapons, global consciousness, Glade air fresheners, and sentient automobiles. But we're assholes first.”

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Book:Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living

Source: Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living

“We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.”

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Author:Saint Augustine

“The human brain is hardwired to have this fundamental experience of universal consciousness, which is available to anyone from any culture, of any age, any religion, and without any philosophical predisposition.”

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Author:John Hagelin

“When I experienced altered states of consciousness, my whole philosophical structure crumbled, and that terrified me. And what scared me the most was the realisation that death was not the end!”

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Author:Susan Schneider

“I think that there is an ongoing conspiracy in the philosophical community, an organized form of self-deception, as in a cult, to simply all together pretend that we knew what "first-person perspective" (or "quale" or "consciousness") means, so that we can keep our traditional debates running on forever.”

“Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.”

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Author:Bruce Lee

“Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.”

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Author:Karl Marx

“Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.”

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Book:The Confessions of J.J. Rousseau

Source: The Confessions of J.J. Rousseau

“Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.”

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Author:Eckhart Tolle

“In the sort of screen dappled with different states of mind which my consciousness would simultaneously unfold while I read, and which ranged from the aspirations hidden deepest within me to the completely exterior vision of the horizon which I had, at the bottom of the garden, before my eyes, what was first in me, innermost, the constantly moving handle that controlled the rest, was my belief in the philosophical richness and beauty of the book I was reading, and my desire to appropriate them for myself, whatever that book might be.”

“These dreams reminded me that, since I wished some day to become a writer, it was high time to decide what sort of books I was going to write. But as soon as I asked myself the question, and tried to discover some subject to which I could impart a philosophical significance of infinite value, my mind would stop like a clock, my consciousness would be faced with a blank, I would feel either that I was wholly devoid of talent or perhaps that some malady of the brain was hindering its development.”

Source: In Search of Lost Time, Volume I: Swann's Way (A Modern Library E-Book)

“Many people dedicate their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like, rather than actualizing themselves. This difference between self-actualization and self-image actualization is very important. Most people live only for their image”

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Author:Bruce Lee

“The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action.”

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Book:Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

“When your consciousness is directed outward, mind and world arise. When it is directed inward, it realises its own Source and returns home into the Unmanifested.”

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Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Philosophical reflection could not leave the relation of mind and spirit in the obscurity which had satisfied the needs of the naive consciousness.”

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Book:Principles of Physiological Psychology

Source: Principles of Physiological Psychology

“Although you can find certain differences among the Buddhist philosophical schools about how the universe came into being, the basic common question addressed is how the two fundamental principles-external matter and internal mind or consciousness-although distinct, affect one another. External causes and conditions are responsible for certain of our experiences of happiness and suffering. Yet we find that it is principally our own feelings, our thoughts and our emotions, that really determine whether we are going to suffer or be happy.”

Source: Dzogchen: The Heart Essence of the Great Perfection

“There is a form of poetic and esthetic and moral genius necessary to make philosophical issues truly incandesce for students, and even though I indeed had some world-class professors myself when I went through the curriculum, I rarely saw such gnosic or concretist/poetic passion among them. I am not speaking of broad histrionics or melodramatic delivery, but rather a moral investment of concern, of loving delight and pathos in exposing one's consciousness to the full horrific and magnificent implications of the materials.”

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