386 Consciousness Quotes for You to Enjoy

Mental states of every kind, - sensations, feelings, ideas, - which were at one time present in consciousness and then have disappeared from it, have not with their disappearance absolutely ceased to exist. Hermann Ebbinghaus

Time Feelings Every States Kind One Time Mental Absolutely Disappearance Disappeared Ideas Were Exist Sensations Which Then Present Consciousness

Is there a higher energy? I would say yes, even if the energy is collective. Even if it's kind of Jungian, or the whole thing is collective consciousness, that may be God as far as I'm concerned. So is there an energy that's higher than mine? Yes. But would I claim it as God? I would say no. Holly Hunter

I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness. Huey Newton

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I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on. Isaac Rosenberg

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It's about your heart and about your consciousness. It's not about length of time you pray. Some of the most powerful prayers I've ever heard come from children, who can barely speak. Iyanla Vanzant

For complicated historical and political reasons, we associate 'poor' in our public consciousness with 'black.' Terms such as 'welfare queen' and 'culture of poverty' became associated uniquely with the social maladies of African Americans in urban ghettos, despite the fact that poor whites outnumbered poor blacks. J. D. Vance

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I think it's terribly important to watch TV. I think there's a sort of minimum number of hours of TV a day you ought to watch, and unless you watch three or four hours of TV a day, you're just closing your eyes to some of the most important sort of stream of consciousness that's going on! J. G. Ballard

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If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart. J. M. Coetzee

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In the midst of observing the world and coming to consciousness, I was becoming a writer, and what I wanted to put on the page were the stories of people who looked like me. Jacqueline Woodson

Me People World Writer Put Observing Like Looked Becoming Coming Were Wanted Stories Midst Page Who Consciousness

Our intellect, our awareness, and our consciousness is the most powerful form of life on this planet. It's totally worthwhile. If our animal instincts stopped, we would die. We don't think about it, but if your consciousness were responsible for all of your bodily functions, you would die. James McAvoy

Life You Animal Awareness Think Our Responsible Worthwhile Would Totally About Powerful Instincts Most Most Powerful Were Intellect Die Stopped Form Planet Bodily Your Functions Consciousness

As far as I understand, the Second Coming is already here. It's a consciousness. It is not someone who is going to arrive and land in a clearing in the forest. The Hell that they talk of is going to be people creating their own unhappiness, a Hell on Earth. Jane Siberry

Intention involves such a small fragment of our consciousness and of our mind and of our life. Jasper Johns

Life Mind Fragment Our Small Involves Intention Consciousness

I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness. Jeanette Winterson

Change Group About Write Any Consciousness Bring

I would encounter W. E. B. Du Bois and the term double consciousness. When I read it, I thought about sitting in my mother's employer's family room, watching my mother clean while I waited for her to finish so we could go home. Jesmyn Ward

Home Family Mother Thought Would About Finish Clean Could Term Employer Read Go Go Home Waited Encounter Sitting While Room Double Her Consciousness Watching

So much of my writing derives from these questions that I ask myself - things that are utterly beyond my personal set of experiences - and it's my attempt to try to... understand, to sort of break out of my own consciousness, you know, the limitations of my own life. Jhumpa Lahiri

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Concussions have brought the consciousness to the problem, but I think the problem is football-related injuries, period, and the lack of support from the league of those players who have suffered those injuries. The denial factor has been unbelievable. I'm here because I'm a fighter to try to bring attention to this fact. Jim Brown

Problem Denial Try Fighter Think Those Has-Been Unbelievable Brought Fact Factor Support Attention League Period Because Been Lack Who Injuries Suffered Consciousness Bring Players Here

Narrative has been part of human consciousness for a long time. And if it has played a part in all those thousands of years, it will know a trick or two. It will be wise. It will be mischievous. It will be helpful. It will be generous. Jim Crace

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As a natural historian, I don't believe in the consciousness of rocks or the opinions of rainbows or the convictions of slugs. Jim Crace

Natural Convictions Believe Opinions Historian Rocks Rainbows Consciousness

Abdias do Nascimento was the first writer who gave me racial consciousness. It was through his books and writings that I first took in the real weight of race in our society. He was the main influence on me because in my family, race was never an issue. Joaquim Barbosa

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If you listen to a lot of music, it gradually seeps into your consciousness or your unconsciousness and comes out in your music. John Abercrombie

Music You Out Lot Gradually Listen Your Consciousness

To regard the soul and body as one, or to ascribe to consciousness a physiological origin, is not detracting from its divinity; it is rather conferring divinity upon the body. John Burroughs

Soul Rather Physiological Divinity Regard Ascribe Body Origin Consciousness

What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we possess and that its role as consciousness must inform us of our ability to comprehend the hideous danger of nuclear power. John Cheever

The reason bin Laden staggered the planes going into the towers was so every camera would be focused on the second tower when the plane hit. It was not only the murder, but the perpetual image of the horror that permeated into people's consciousness. John Cusack

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