Consciousness Quotes - Page 34

The traveler to the United States will do wellto prepare himself for the class-consciousness of the natives. This differs from the already familiar English version in being more extreme and based more firmly on the conviction that the class to which the speaker belongs is inherently superior to all others.

No one else writes like Gord Downie, so it's difficult to compare him. He can work in the abstract and still somehow be really specific. He lets parts of his consciousness in that most writers aren't able to do, myself included. I don't feel like I have that access to the surreal and the somehow beautifully meaningful non-sequitur - that fits perfectly. I can never figure that out, how he does that.

The miracle and hope of human consciousness is that we can still conceive of boundlessness.

We talk much more about individualism and liberty than our ancestors. But as so often happens, when anything becomes conscious, the consciousness is compensatory for absence in practice.

Education is a regulation of the process of coming to share in the social consciousness; and that the adjustment of individual activity on the basis of this social consciousness is the only sure method of social reconstruction.

I came to political consciousness with John F. Kennedy's magnificent 1961 Inaugural Address. It seemed the start of something fresh and exciting, and it was.

Self-consciousness can destroy a performance. Getting rid of that is always good.

To be contemplative we must become converted to the consciousness that makes us one with the universe, in tune with the cosmic voice of God.

There is no partial sensitivity; either it is the state of one's whole being, total consciousness or it is not there at all

Banning capital punishment takes us to a higher state of consciousness.

A cockroach likely has no less brainpower than a butterfly, but we're quicker to deny it consciousness because it's a species we dislike.

Spirituality is committing suicide. Consciousness is attempting to will itself out of existence.

I'd like to see the Second Coming in every one of us. That we all be Jesus. That we all embody that consciousness.

It's the nature of human consciousness to look for trouble constantly, and we find it. We find it.

All of consciousness is shifted from the imagined, the revisive, to the effort to perceive simply the cruel radiance of what is

No one knows how this world came into being. It is a creation of consciousness itself. It's extraordinary, a mystery.

What I teach is how to go inside and reach that place I call "love consciousness." This is a place of peace and joy that is within all humans.

I've already become a mastodon in print - I don't see a consciousness for my kind of journalism.

We come, in our trust, unto God, and the moment we so embrace Him, by committing our total being and eternity to Him, we find every thing is transformed. There is life in us from God; a kind of Christ-consciousness is opened in us, testifying with the apostle,--Christ liveth in me.

Epistemologists should be concerned with knowledge and justification and so on, not our concepts of them; philosophers of mind should be concerned with various features of our mental life and the large-scale structure of the mind, not our concepts of mind, or consciousness, or anything else

All liberation depends on the consciousness of servitude, and the emergence of this consciousness is always hampered by the predominance of needs and satisfactions which, to a great extent, have become the individual's own.

The happy consciousness is shaky enough a thin surface over fear, frustration, and disgust.

The moment one is on the side of life; peace and security drop out of consciousness. The only peace, the only security, is in fulfillment.

What would happen to the individual if all the functions of the body were placed under the control of the consciousness is what would happen to a nation in which all individual activities were directed by government.

We bless and curse ourselves.