Quotes about Consciousness

The unconsciousness of man is the consciousness of God.

My actions are my only true belongings.

I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.

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.

Itaque inter omnis omnium gentium summa constat; omnibus enim innatum est et in animo quasi insculptum esse deos.

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.

To draw an analogy: a man's suffering is similar to the behavior of gas. If a certain quantity of gas is pumped into an empty chamber, it will fill the chamber completely and evenly, no matter how big the chamber. Thus suffering completely fills the human soul and conscious mind, no matter whether the suffering is great or little. Therefore the "size" of human suffering is absolutely relative.

Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!

Freedom is but the negative aspect of the whole phenomenon whose positive aspect is responsibleness.

I wanted to wake the poor man. Suddenly I drew back the hand which was ready to shake him, frightened at the thing I was about to do. At that moment I became intensely conscious of the fact that no dream, no matter how horrible, could be as bad as the reality of the camp which surrounded us, and

To put it figuratively, the role played by a logotherapist is that of an eye specialist rather than that of a painter. A painter tries to convey to us a picture of the world as he sees it; an ophthalmologist tries to enable us to see the world as it really is. The logotherapist's role consists of widening and broadening the visual field of the patient so that the whole spectrum of potential meaning becomes conscious and visible to him.

Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!'' It