consciousness quotes

• "There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) [life/consciousness/love/wings]
• Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them. ( Aristotle) [consciousness]
• No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight of the soul. (Ingrid Bergman) [form/art/consciousness/film]
• The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief. (Eileen Caddy) [desire/faith/consciousness]
• A sub-clerk in the post-office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them. (Albert Camus) [consciousness]
• Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best. (Andrew Carnegie) [look/consciousness]
• The sea -- this truth must be confessed -- has no generosity. No display of manly qualities -- courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness -- has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power. (Joseph Conrad) [truth/courage/consciousness/power]
• Of Consciousness, her awful Mate. The Soul cannot be rid -- as easy the secreting her behind the Eyes of God. (Emily Dickinson) [consciousness/eyes/god]
• The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness. (Max Eastman) [artist/consciousness]
• Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain. (William Hazlitt) [death/consciousness]
• The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom. (Georg Hegel) [civilization & progress/consciousness]
• The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us. (Eric Hoffer) [wisdom/blood/consciousness]
• Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue. (Henry James) [experience/consciousness]
• Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different. (William James) [normal/consciousness/consciousness/type]
• Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness. (Samuel Johnson) [happiness/agreeable/consciousness]
• My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious. (Karl Kraus) [more/consciousness/consciousness]
• The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people. (Norman Mailer) [art/consciousness/people]
• The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass. (Herman Melville) [consciousness/being/being/reality]
• The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure. (Henry Miller) [perfect/consciousness]
• 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) [evil/consciousness]
• In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him. (Friedrich Nietzsche) [consciousness/truth]
• The essence of the Liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment. (Bertrand Russell) [essence/being/consciousness/moment]
• We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits -- and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful. (Simone Weil) [consciousness/situation]
• The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when one thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers of passion seem to grow in the same meadow as the poppies of oblivion. (Oscar Wilde) [life/consciousness/pleasure/oblivion]
• Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end. (Virginia Woolf) [life/life/consciousness]
• The challenge for me is still to do something that hasn't been beaten into the movie going consciousness. Otherwise what am I in it for? (Johnny Depp) [movie/consciousness]
• “I was born with a serious spiritual consciousness and for many years studied different paths.” (Steven Seagal) [consciousness]
• On The Practice, I get to do what I love to do, and I am making a contribution that will, in the end, help raise social consciousness, dispel some of the myths about being large, and change the way that people view and interact with large people. (Camryn Manheim) [love/willpower/consciousness/being]
• Partly because the town is just finicky, there are strange Catch 22 clauses in the consciousness of this community and one of them was that you, I found out, you can't do a comedy unless you've just done a comedy. (Val Kilmer) [strange/consciousness]
• I don't know. I think there's some kind of collective consciousness that gets out there and people kind of delve into the same areas at the same time. (Toni Collette) [think/collectivism/consciousness/people]
• What's fascinating is that when you write a script, it's almost a stream of consciousness. You have an idea that it means something, but you're not always sure what. Then when you get on the set, the actors teach you. (Gary Oldman) [consciousness/actors/teach]

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