Quotes about Consciousness
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
The unconsciousness of man is the consciousness of God.
— Henry David Thoreau
My actions are my only true belongings.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Knowledge is according to the mode of the one who knows; for the thing known is in the knower according to the mode of the knower.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Itaque inter omnis omnium gentium summa constat; omnibus enim innatum est et in animo quasi insculptum esse deos.
— Cicero
Live as if you were living for the second time and had acted as wrongly the first time as you are about to act now.
— Viktor E. Frankl