Quotes about Consciousness

The unconsciousness of man is the consciousness of God.

I was always conscious of sounds in nature which my ears could never hear,—that I caught but the prelude to a strain. She always retreats as I advance. Away behind and behind is she and her meaning. Will not this faith and expectation make to itself ears at length?

Nothing was ever so unfamiliar and startling to a man as his own thoughts

do not let your left hand know what your right hand does, for it is not worth knowing.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

Because no man can ever feel his own identity aright except his eyes be closed; as if darkness were indeed the proper element of our essences, though light be more congenial to our clayey part.

If you watch what you think about, you won't have to watch what you talk about.

Your life is a mirror. Life gives us not what we want. Life gives us who we are.

Begin to listen to what you say. Don't say anything that you don't want to become true for you.

Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history. Let us hope that we are still in the early morning of our April day.

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.