Quotes about Consciousness

The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness.

We are material beings for but a moment in time, but we are spiritual beings forever.

Remember, we are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death?

Where the mind goes, the man follows.

Every man is two men; one is awake in the darkness, the other asleep in the light.

The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.

The infinite exists. It is there. If the infinite had no me, the me would be its limit; it would not be the infinite; in other words, it would not be. But it is. Then it has a me. This me of the infinite is God.

He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.

Their own destiny is a far-off thing to them ... One declines, descends, trickles away, even crumbles away, and yet is hardly conscious of it one's self. It always ends, it is true, in an awakening, but the awakening is tardy. In the meantime, it seems as though we held ourselves neutral in the game which is going on between our happiness and our unhappiness. We are the stake, and we look on at the game with indifference.

Happiness and despair do not breathe the same air. A man in despair participates in the life of others from a great distance; he is almost unaware of their presence; he has lost any consciousness of his own existence; he is a thing of flesh and blood but feels that he is no longer real; he sees himself only as a dream.

An inward growth seemed to be in progress within him. He was conscious of a sort of natural enlargement, which gave him two things that were new to him — his father and his country.