Best philosophy & consciousness Quotes

“Wisdom isn't to know these words. Wisdom isn't to have ideas or philosophies - those are just thoughts. Wisdom is to be that perfect consciousness.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“The Beginning of Philosophy is a Consciousness of your own Weakness and inability in necessary things.”

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Author:Epictetus

“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.”

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Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein

“If we are in a high enough state of consciousness we see that life is only a passing dream.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Success, failure, pain, small furry animals, household products, freeways, Star Wars systems - all are interlinked in the dance of tantra, the disco of the mind, the ballroom of cosmic consciousness.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Socrates had no system to teach. Throughout, his philosophy was a spiritual exercise, an invitation to a new way of life, active reflection, and living consciousness.”

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Author:Pierre Hadot

“Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking--being awake--consciousness.”

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Book:Novalis: Philosophical Writings

Source: Novalis: Philosophical Writings

“Just as man's physical existence was liberated when he grasped that 'nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed', so his consciousness will be liberated when grasps that nature, to be apprehended, must be obeyed - that the rules of cognition must be derived from the nature of existence and the nature, the identity, of his cognitive faculty.”

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Book:The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

“The necessity of saying something, the embarrassment produced by the consciousness of having nothing to say, and the desire to exhibit ability, are three things sufficient to render even a great man ridiculous.”

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Book:A Philosophical Dictionary: From the French

Source: A Philosophical Dictionary: From the French

“The thought of both East and West (philosophies) can indeed be integrated into a higher truth. They show us that the West is correct in maintaining that life is about progress about evolving toward something higher. Yet the East is also correct in emphasizing that we must let go of control with the ego. We can't progress by using logic alone. We have to attain a fuller consciousness, an inner connection with God, because only then can our evolution toward something better be guided by a higher part of ourselves.”

“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.”

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Author:Christopher Hitchens

“The development of physics in the twentieth century already has transformed the consciousness of those involved with it. The study (of modern physics) produces insights into the nature of reality very similar to those produced by the study of eastern philosophy.”

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Author:Gary Zukav

“The basic philosophy of stoicism is that you have nothing real external to your own consciousness, that the only thing real is in fact your consciousness.”

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Author:Roger Avary

“Philosophy is the self-correction by consciousness of its own initial excess of subjectivity.”

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Book:Process and Reality

Source: Process and Reality

“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.”

“When I read philosophy or neuroscience papers about consciousness, I don't get the sense we're any closer to understanding it than we were 50 years ago.”

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Author:Stuart J. Russell

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