Quotes about Consciousness

A radical inner transformation and rise to a

new level of consciousness might be the only
real hope we have in the current global crisis
brought on by the dominance of the Western
mechanistic paradigm

Stanislav Grof
Actually, I think my view is compatible with
much of the work going on now in
neuroscience and psychology, where people
are studying the relationship of consciousness
to neural and cognitive processes without
really trying to reduce it to those processes

David Chalmers
 All historical experience demonstrates the
following: Our earth cannot be changed unless
in the not too distant future an alteration in
the consciousness of individuals is achieved

Hans Kung
All science is experiential; but all experience
must be related back to and derives its its
validity from the conditions and context of
consciousness in which it arises, i.e., the
totality of our nature

Wilhelm Dilthey
An unconscious consciousness is no more a
contradiction in terms than an unseen case of
seeing

Franz Clemens Brentano

Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it
merely makes us conscious of the existence of
an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness

Henry Miller
 Art is the production of objects for
consumption, to be used and discarded while
waiting for a new world in which man will
have succeeded in freeing himself of
everything, even of his own consciousness

Eugenio Montale
As for morality, well that's all tied up with the
question of consciousness

Roger Penrose
 As the ego cogito, subjectivity is the
consciousness that represents something,
relates this representation back to itself, and
so gathers with itself

Martin Heidegger
 Because our entire universe is made up of
consciousness, we never really experience the
universe directly we just experience our
consciousness of the universe, our perception
of it, so right, our only universe is perception

Alan Moore
Changing mass consciousness is an individual
responsibility

Dennis Weaver
Conflict is the beginning of consciousness

M. Esther Harding
Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture
ourselves getting somewhere, and when we
get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere
to get to

David Herbert Lawrence

Consciousness is our only reprieve from Time

Mason Cooley
Consciousness is what makes the mind-body
problem really intractable

Thomas Nagel
 Consciousness of myself, combined with
complete ignorance of everything that does
not fall within my sphere of thinking, is the
most telling proof of my substantiality outside
God, of my original existence

Moses Mendelssohn
Ego is the immediate dictate of human
consciousness

Max Planck
Each of us can manifest the properties of a field
of consciousness that transcends space, time,
and linear causality

Stanislav Grof
Everything in the Universe, throughout all its
kingdoms, is conscious: i.e., endowed with a
consciousness of its own kind and on its own
plane of perception

H. P. Blavatsky