Quotes about Consciousness
Our normal waking consciousness . . . is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the flimsiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different. We may go through life without suspecting their existence; but apply the requisite stimulus and at a touch they are all there in all their completeness . . . No account of the universe in its totality can be final which leaves these other forms of consciousness quite disregarded.
— William James
Knowledge about a thing is not the thing itself.
— William James
The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work.
— William James
What you see with the eyes of faith is more real than what you see with your optical eyes.
— Chris Oyakhilome
Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying.
— Christian Furchtegott Gellert
Oh, one world at a time!
— Henry David Thoreau
What are the earth and all its interests beside the deep surmise which pierces and scatters them?
— Henry David Thoreau
Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake.
— Henry David Thoreau
Intuition is the very force or activity of the soul in its experience through whatever has been the experience of the soul itself.
— Henry Reed
There are materials enough in every man's mind to make a hell there.
— Henry Ward Beecher
You are what you pay attention to. No attention, no life. Everything comes to life when you pay attention to
— Leonard Sweet
Things may happen around you, and things may happen to you, but the only things that really count are the things that happen in you."
— Les Brown