Quotes About Human Consciousness

#1. Consciousness-Based Education is just plugging us all into the beautiful, eternal field within, and then watching things get better, which is what happens. It's a field of infinite, unbounded peace within every human being, and when you experience it, you enliven that peace.

David Lynch

#2. Human life without death would be something other than human; consciousness of mortality gives rise to our deepest longings and greatest accomplishments. - LEON KASS, CHAIR OF THE PRESIDENTIAL COMMISSION ON BIOETHICS, 2003

Ray Kurzweil

#3. I Should Just Stop Tweeting, The Human Consciousness Must Raise Before I Speak My Juvenile Philosophy.

Jaden Smith

#4. If chimpanzees have consciousness, if they are capable of abstractions, do they not have what until now has been described as 'human rights'? How smart does a chimp have to be before killing him constitutes murder?

Carl Sagan

#5. [L]et my reader who is puzzled by my awkward explanations close his eyes for no more than two minutes, and see if he does not find himself suddenly not a compact human being at all, but only a consciousness on a sea of sound and touch ...

Shirley Jackson

#6. Mathematics is the handwriting on the human consciousness of the very Spirit of Life itself.

Claude Fayette Bragdon

#7. The removal of God from human consciousness means the removal of meaning and purpose from human life.

Fazlur Rahman

#8. Evolution, life, physis, appear here as enveloping with regard to 'consciousness' of human knowledge.

Maurice Merleau Ponty

#9. Trying to change social, national, or global realities without working on human consciousness means there is no serious intention.

Jaggi Vasudev

#10. Memory is a time capsule; it records the wounds inflicted upon human consciousness.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#11. The Kabbalah describes angels as bundles of light, meaning intelligence, consciousness. Kabbalists believe that above every blade of grass is an angel crying "Grow! Grow!" ... I believe that above the entire human race is one super-angel, crying "Evolve! Evolve!"

Steven Pressfield

#12. Humanity has pondered over the meaning of God since its beginning. It is one of those cognitive features that came along with the advent of modern Human Consciousness.

Abhijit Naskar

#13. Reality is that which exists; the unreal does not exist; the unreal is merely that negation of existence which is the content of a human consciousness when it attempts to abandon reason. Truth is the recognition of reality; reason, man's only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth.

Ayn Rand

#14. What's popularly known as the evolution of consciousness, in other words that the expansion of cognitive repertoire that occurs in human beings, which has always been a great puzzle to evolutionary theory, I believe, occurred in the presence of a kind of catalyst for the human imagination.

Terence McKenna

#15. The case for interconnectedness between conscious human lives is hard to deny.

Kat Lahr

#16. We must know, if only in order to learn not to know. The supreme lesson of human consciousness is to learn how not to know. That is, how not to interfere.

D.H. Lawrence

#17. What I have sought in love is a reprieve from the itch of consciousness -- to transcend myself and my human imperfections -- but this has yet to happen.

Melissa Broder

#18. Even though it is common knowledge in our field of Neuroscience, I take immense pleasure every time I realize that our perception of the whole universe emerges from the activity of the little specks of jelly inside our skull.

Abhijit Naskar

#19. Sufis aim to refine human consciousness. This is Sufi mysticism: not mystification or magic, but a specific Path.

Idries Shah

#20. How do we define consciousness, or what has been called the human soul or the spirit, if it can't be quantified as matter or a particle? ... it can be quantified or observed just by a process of elimination.

Vanna Bonta

#21. The pinnacle of human consciousness must be the rejection of unhealthy competition, war and violence.

Bryant McGill

#22. How small the cosmos (a kangaroo's pouch would hold it), how paltry and puny in comparison to human consciousness, to a single individual recollection, and its expression in words!

Vladimir Nabokov

#23. The ill effects of thought come about when we forget that thought is a function of our consciousness ... an ability that we as human beings have. We are the producers of our own thinking.

Richard Carlson

#24. In the world there's a thing called collective consciousness. All of us billions of human beings together create that collective consciousness. With all the problems in our world, you can see that the collective consciousness is not so high.

David Lynch

#25. Religion has endured since the dawn of human consciousness precisely because it encompasses so much of being human. No idea has endured so long, gathered up so many disparate needs and wants and feelings, and inspired so many different paths towards understanding it.

Robert Winston

#26. BLINDSIGHT is fearless: a magnificent, darkly gleaming jewel of a book that hurdles the contradictions inherent in biochemistry, consciousness, and human hearts without breaking stride.

Elizabeth Bear

#27. If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness.

M. Esther Harding

#28. For our race to achieve the true satori, for us to move to that next level of consciousness and evolution that so many of our philosophies proclaim, all facets of human endeavor must become conscious strivings for art.

Dan Simmons

#29. Perception is like painting a scenery - no matter how beautifully you paint, it will still be a painting of the scenery, not the scenery itself.

Abhijit Naskar

#30. For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my present human form of consciousness I simply cannot tell.

Josiah Royce

#31. The problems that stand in the way are not of economical or technological nature. The deepest sources of the global crisis lie inside the human personality and reflect the level of consciousness evolution of our species.

Stanislav Grof

#32. Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinically alive and yet, despite all appearances, spiritually dead.

Idries Shah

#33. For how can any human be separate from humanity and humanness?

Kamand Kojouri

#34. Montaigne [puts] not self-satisfied understanding but a consciousness astonished at itself at the core of human existence.

Maurice Merleau Ponty

#35. Turning points in human consciousness occur when new energy regimes converge with new communications revolutions, creating new economic eras.

Jeremy Rifkin

#36. The operative idea here is that there is a right and wrong theology
a right God and a wrong God. But this is an invalid premise. All versions of God are the same thing: A HUMAN INTERPRETATION OF THE UNIVERSAL CONSCIOUSNESS.

Carlton D. Pearson

#37. Perhaps the meaning of all human activity lies in artistic consciousness, in the pointless and selfless creative act? Perhaps our capacity to create is evidence that we ourselves were created in the image and likeness of God?

Andrei Tarkovsky

#38. The awful consciousness that one is the sole object of attention to that immense space, lined as it were with human intellect from top to bottom, and on all side round, may be perhaps be imagined but can not be described.

Sarah Siddons

#39. When human consciousness stops fooling itself and looks at the situation straight on, it can't cope.

Fuminori Nakamura

#40. Narrative has been part of human consciousness for a long time. And if it has played a part in all those thousands of years, it will know a trick or two. It will be wise. It will be mischievous. It will be helpful. It will be generous.

Jim Crace

#41. A new heaven is the emergence of a transformed state of human consciousness. And A New Earth is it's direct reflection in the physical realm.

Eckhart Tolle

#42. Every day, I read books on philosophy and science fiction and human consciousness.

Tom DeLonge

#43. Human self-understanding changes with time, and so also human consciousness deepens.

Pope Francis

#44. It's the nature of human consciousness to look for trouble constantly, and we find it. We find it.

James Taylor

#45. I'm interested in a lot of different things, but first and foremost I'm into the idea of human consciousness, and Angels & Airwaves is a byproduct of that.

Tom DeLonge

#46. Veganism is a brilliant approach for elevating human consciousness and avoiding the energy of death and degeneration associated with killing animals for food, which enters us when we eat their flesh and blood.

Gabriel Cousens M.D.

#47. Meeting the "self" activates the transformation of human consciousness,

Caroline Myss

#48. But it has, in addition, an even more precious quality - a consciousness of the human intelligence, the human spirit and that man is a social creature.

Norman McLaren

#49. My imagination is my temple where I meditate and pray to change human consciousness and awareness so that I may find peace.

Debasish Mridha

#50. Words are catch-basins of experience, fingerprints and footprints of the past that the literary detective may scrutinize in order to sleuth out the history of human consciousness.

Philip Zaleski

#51. Now, what really makes a teacher is love for the human child; for it is love that transforms the social duty of the educator into the higher consciousness of a mission.

Maria Montessori

#52. My book might be seen as a search for lower consciousness, an attempt to remove the patina of abstraction or glassy-eyed piety from religious words, by telling stories about them, by grounding them in the world we live in as mortal and often comically fallible human beings.

Kathleen Norris

#53. This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness.

Michael Pollan

#54. But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob; it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right.

Ray Stannard Baker

#55. I'm not the first person to have discovered evidence that consciousness exists beyond the body. Brief, wonderful glimpses of this realm are as old as human history.

Eben Alexander

#56. Regardless of all our pretenses, deep within, we are still unconsciously the same old cave-people.

Abhijit Naskar

#57. The mind and the breath are the king and queen of human consciousness.

Leonard D. Orr

#58. God is not an Almighty Being watching over life on earth. God is the Event Horizon of Human Consciousness.

Abhijit Naskar

#59. If there is any characteristic that is distinctly human, it is the capability for reflective self-consciousness.

Albert Bandura

#60. People can not be separated from their environment. Living consciousness is not an isolated unit. Human consciousness is increasing the order of the rest of the world and has an incredible power to heal ourselves and the world: in a certain sense we make the world as such, as we wish.

Lynne McTaggart

#61. Art heightens the sense of humanity. It gives an elation to feeling which is supernatural ... A million sunsets will not spur us on towards civilization. It requires Art to evoke into consciousness the finite perfections which lie ready for human achievement.

Alfred North Whitehead

#62. Human nature is the same now as when Adam hid from the presence of God; the consciousness of wrong makes us unwilling to meet those whom we have offended.

Matthew Simpson

#63. The old will disappear. Human level consciousness by itself can no longer resolve the complexities it has created.

David Spangler

#64. Of all teachings that which presents a far distant God is the nearest to absurdity. Either there is none, or he is nearer to every one of us than our nearest consciousness of self. An unapproachable divinity is the veriest of monsters, the most horrible of human imaginations.

George MacDonald

#65. Gratitude is one of the chief graces of human existence and is crowned in heaven with a consciousness of unity.

Ernest Holmes

#66. We are all working for the immortality of the human consciousness.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

#67. If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.

J.M. Coetzee

#68. Art always helps religion; it became an inseparable phenomenon when human beings gained consciousness.

Hiroshi Sugimoto

#69. I am not interested in things getting better; what I want is more: more human beings, more dreams, more history, more consciousness, more suffering, more joy, more disease, more agony, more rapture, more evolution, more life.

David Zindell

#70. If the world is to change for the better it must start with a change in human consciousness, in the very humanness of modern man.

Vaclav Havel

#71. If human beings are losing every time, it doesn't matter whether they're losing to a conscious machine or an completely non conscious machine, they still lost. The singularity is about the quality of decision-making, which is not consciousness at all.

Stuart J. Russell

#72. Everything you know is a story. That's how human consciousness works.

Ed Gray

#73. No one in human history has given as much thought to the interweaving of altered states of consciousness and religion as I have.

Huston Smith

#74. Human consciousness, not space, is the final frontier.

Alan Joshua

#75. The Landscape becomes reflective, human and thinks itself though me. I make it an
object, let it project itself and endure within my painting....I become the subjective
consciousness of the landscape, and my painting becomes its objective consciousness.

Cezanne

#76. This progressive interiorization is a symptom of the individualization and intensification of human consciousness, and this same principle, which first promoted the growth of personality, continues to govern the next phase of its development (Part II).

Erich Neumann

#77. To be full of being is to live as a body-soul. One name for the experience of full being is joy.

J.M. Coetzee

#78. There is strong archaeological evidence to show that with the birth of human consciousness there was born, like a twin, the impulse to transcend it.

Alan McGlashan

#79. It is instead just the grace of a common person turning suddenly real because he is common and human and recoignizable.

Clarice Lispector

#80. The seat of consciousness - what's known as 'sensorium' - exists partly as an expression of particle entanglement in higher physical dimensions. The human brain is merely a conduit.

Daniel Suarez

#81. Works of Art are meant to connect the human heart to inspiration, for cosmic consciousness to grow in the Supreme Reality rooted in Life and Being.

Nelly Mazloum

#82. Human mortality linked to the human ability consciously to choose how to act by exhibiting free will, humility, hard work, kindness, and compassion provide exemplary opportunities to learn and develop self-discipline.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#83. It is only by embracing the full spectrum of human consciousness that we can bring about a true awakening of the heart

Anodea Judith

#84. The happy individual is able to renew daily and with full consciousness all the basic expressions of human identity: work, love, communication, play, and rest.

Robert Grudin

#85. Language comes into being, like consciousness, from the basic need, from the scantiest intercourse with other human.

Karl Marx

#86. t can be easily argued that all living things are conscious in some aspect, but many would agree that advanced consciousness like our own is unique.

Kat Lahr

#87. If the clockwork universe equated the human body with the mechanics of the clock, the digital universe now equates human consciousness with the processing of the computer. We joke that things don't compute, that we need a reboot, or that our memory has been wiped.

Douglas Rushkoff

#88. Idris: Are all people like this?
The Doctor: Like what?
Idris: So much bigger on the inside.

Neil Gaiman

#89. Human kind gradually begins to remove the blinders from their consciousness about life, about what is real and what is not. Intuition and psychic abilities increase.

Elaine Seiler

#90. Our civilisation cannot afford to let the censor-moron loose. The censor-moron does not really hate anything but the living and growing human consciousness.

D.H. Lawrence

#91. What we see in this world is a gross abnormality. The human consciousness fails to perceive the very simple, divine nature of every atom in every moment.

Frederick Lenz

#92. I have no sense of nationalism, only a cosmic consciousness of belonging to the human family.

Rosika Schwimmer

#93. All I ask is that we compare human consciousness with spirochete ecology.

Lynn Margulis

#94. We humans are the Tyrannosaurus Rex of mammals.

Abhijit Naskar

#95. Human life and objects and trees vibrate with mysterious meanings, which can be deciphered like cuneiform writing. There exists a meaning, hidden from day to day, but accessible in moments of greatest attentiveness, in those moments when consciousness loves the world.

Adam Zagajewski

#96. Faith is a natural evolutionary trait of the human mind, selected by Mother Nature as an internal coping-mechanism.

Abhijit Naskar

#97. Man's unconscious ... contains all the patterns of life and behaviour inherited from his ancestors, so that every human child, prior to consciousness, is possessed of a potential system of adapted psychic functioning.

Carl Jung

#98. All of us as human beings are connected by one energy and consciousness. So we all affect each other and everything that's happening in the world affects us individually. And what we're each doing as an individual affects what's going on in the world.

Shakti Gawain

#99. If the Internet can be described as a giant human consciousness, then viral marketing is the illusion of free will.

George Pendle

#100. Consciousness is a mystery that faces the mystery of potential and transforms it into actuality. We do that with every choice we make. Our choices determine the destiny of the world. By making a choice, you alter the structure of reality

Jordan Petersen