Quotes about Consciousness
Man is the mirror God holds up to himself, the sense organ with which he apprehends his being.
— Carl Jung
If there is no meditation, then you are like a blind man in a world of great beauty, light and colour.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
For God's sake, let us be men not monkeys minding machines or sitting with our tails curled while the machine amuses us, the radio or film or gramophone. Monkeys with a bland grin on our faces.
— DH Lawrence
Man does not have a soul. He is a soul. He has a body.
— CS Lewis
Man is unique in that, unlike animals, he knows he is going to die, and unlike animals he can do something about it.
— Ray Comfort
The only thing about a man that is a man is his mind.
— Earl Nightingale
Two times two will be four even without my will. Is that what you call man's free will?
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
A man who has become conscious of the absurd is for ever bound to it.
— Albert Camus
The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He experiences that other life in his own.
— Albert Schweitzer
Thought is a man in his wholeness, wholly attending.
— DH Lawrence
There are some men formed with feelings so blunt that they can hardly be said to be awake during the whole course of their lives.
— Edmund Burke