Conciousness Quotes

“To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself -- that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word 'doublethink' involved the use of doublethink.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Live to learn to love.
Learn to love to live.
Love to live to learn
so that you may live the life that you yearn.”
― Rico Dasheem

“Hating skin color is contempt for God's divine creative imagination. Honoring it is appreciation for conscious, beautiful-love-inspired diversity.”
― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

“An educator should consider that he has failed in his job if he has not succeeded in instilling some trace of a divine dissatisfaction with our miserable social environment. ”
― Anthony Standen

“So here I am in step with everyone now, and yet I'm still separate from everyone. I am still trembling all over from the agitation I endured, like a bridge after an ancient train has rumbled over it. I am aware of myself. And, of course, the only things that are aware of themselves and conscious of their individuality are irritated eyes, cut fingers, sore teeth. A healthy eye, finger, tooth might as well not even be there. Isn't it clear that individual consciousness is just sickness?”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“Imagine that every man’s mind is an island, surrounded by ocean. Each seems isolated, yet in reality all are linked by the bedrock from which they spring. If the ocean were to vanish, that would be the end of the islands. They would all be part of one continent, but the individuality would have gone”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End

“Once out of the body you will be able to choose any form you like, and change it as often as you like. Animal, vegetable, mineral. The gods appeared in human form and animal form, and they changed others into trees or birds. Those were stories about the future. We have always known that we are not limited to the shape we inhabit.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Frankissstein: A Love Story

“Rembrandt’s embrace remained imprinted on my soul far more profoundly than any temporary expression of emotional support. It had brought me into touch with something within me that lies far beyond the ups and downs of a busy life, something that represents the ongoing yearning of the human spirit, the yearning for a final return, an unambiguous sense of safety, a lasting home. The yearning for a lasting home, brought to consciousness by Rembrandt’s painting, grew deeper and stronger, somehow making the painter himself into a faithful companion and guide.”
― Henri J.M. Nouwen, The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming

“Nigerians wake up or die asleep. But thinking you will escape reality just by being asleep is false. #getconcious”
― Seun Ayilara

“In so many ways we are still in the dark ages, but there is light appearing over the horizon of choice and consciousness.”
― Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason

“Low self-esteem means showing yourself
or imagining yourself to be less than what
you are. High self-esteem is imagining
yourself to be much more than what you
are. Again, this is also based on the
opinions of others. You judge yourself
based on your lifestyle rather than your life.
- HDH Bhagavan Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam, in the book "Living Enlightenment”
― Paramahamsa Nithyananda, Living Enlightenment

“Reality comes in many different flavors.”
― Steven Magee

“The only genuinely effective way to change the collective consciousness of humans, is to work on ourselves as individuals, to separate ourselves from everything we recognise to be inherently harmful, and to inspire the same in others.”
― Mango Wodzak, Topsy-Turvy World - Vegan Anarchy

“We’re all in a time river that doesn’t stop flowing, currently ending with a drop into the abyss.The further along the river we get the more we understand about it. So, we can accept our fate, and drift until we fall off the edge, or fight to figure out how to extend the length of the river.”
― Jack Jay

“One life to live and humans spend the majority of it worrying about our variations. Mind blowing.”
― Torron-Lee Dewar

“... there is no reason to assume that artificial intelligence will gain consciousness, because intelligence and consciousness are very different things. Intelligence is the ability to solve problems. Consciousness is the ability to feel things such as pain, joy, love and anger. We tend to confuse the two because in humans and other mammals intelligence goes hand in hand. with consciousness. Mammals solve most problems by feeling things. Computers, however, solve problems in a very different way.

There are simply several different paths leading to high intelligence, and only some of these paths involve gaining consciousness. Just as aeroplanes fly faster than birds without ever developing feathers, so computers may come to solve problems much better than mammals without ever developing feelings. (page 49)”
― Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

“You'll spend a long portion of your life fighting off evil, if you are consumed by its toxins. One cannot win with the same tactics of the opponent, spend the time running toward your soul on an internal seek, an inner peace that accepts there is pain, there is tragedy, there is misfortune in this world but there is also power to turn these great adversities into the kind of light that ripples a postive effect amongst millions.”
― Nikki rowe

“If the standard model is correct, the universe started in a state of high density and temperature, with all matter and radiation forming one great continuous mass. It is very remarkable that this undifferentiated soup should have the intrinsic property that in due course of time it develops into galaxies of which at least one creates life with such staggering complexity, subtlety and diversity and often such stunning beauty. It also creates thinking and feeling beings which in turn can contemplate the universe and study its properties and which can love and hate.”
― Jamal Nazrul Islam, The Ultimate Fate of the Universe

“Your conscience, dammit - doesn't it ever bother you?"
"Why should it? I've never done anything dishonest."
"Let me put it another way: do you agree things are a mess?"
"Between us?"
"Everywhere! The world!" She could be appallingly nearsighted. Whenever possible, she liked to reduce any generalization to terms of herself and persons she knew intimately. "Homestead, for instance."
"What else could we possibly give the people that they haven't got?"
"There! You made my point for me. You said, what else could we give them, as though everything in the world were ours to give or withhold."
"Somebody's got to take responsibility, and that's just the way it is when somebody does."
"That's just it: things haven't always been that way. It's new, and it's people like us who've brought it about. Hell, everybody used to have some personal skill or willingness to work or something he could trade for what he wanted. Now that the machines have taken over, it's quite somebody who has anything to offer. All most people can do is hope to be given something."
"If someone has brains," said Anita firmly, "he can still get to the top. That's the American way, Paul, and it hasn't changed." She looked at him appraisingly. "Brains and nerve, Paul."
"And blinders." The punch was gone from his voice, and he felt drugged, a drowsiness from a little too much to drink, from scrambling over a series of emotional peaks and pits, from utter frustration.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Player Piano

“Let your mind be as big as the universe. Infinite.”
― Torron-Lee Dewar, Creativity is Everything

“The internet is used as not just a tool anymore but as part of our daily makeup. Almost like oxygen. Discipline goes a long way in protecting our sanity.”
― Torron-Lee Dewar, Creativity is Everything

“Note too that while professional philosophers are paid to scrutinize belief - to reveal hidden assumptions and bring attention to faulty inferences - that's not how most of us now, or our ancestors then, go about it. Many beliefs in most lives go unexamined.”
― Brian Greene, Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe

“Imbued with favorable energy.”
― Monaristw

“John Bowlby understood that our need for someone to share our lives with is part of
our genetic makeup and has nothing to do with how much we love ourselves or how fulfilled we feel on our own. He discovered that once we choose someone special, powerful and often uncontrollable forces
come into play.

New patterns of behavior kick in regardless of how independent we are and despite our conscious wills.

Once we choose a partner, there is no question about whether dependency exists or not. It always does. An elegant coexistence that does not include uncomfortable feelings of vulnerability and fear of loss sounds good but is not our biology. What proved through evolution to have a strong survival advantage is a human couple becoming one physiological unit, which means that if she’s reacting, then I’m reacting, or if he’s upset, that also makes me unsettled. He or she is part of me, and I will do anything to save him or her; having such a vested interest in the well-being of another person translates into a very important survival advantage for both parties.”
― Amir Levine, Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find—and Keep—Love

“It's just so trippy watching consciousness emerge.”
― c Boucher (Grimes)

“বিপদে মোরে রক্ষা করো এ নহে মোর প্রার্থনা—
বিপদে আমি না যেন করি ভয়।
দুঃখতাপে ব্যথিত চিতে নাই-বা দিলে সান্ত্বনা,
দুঃখে যেন করিতে পারি জয়।
সহায় মোর না যদি জুটে, নিজের বল না যেন টুটে,
সংসারেতে ঘটিলে ক্ষতি, লভিলে শুধু বঞ্চনা
নিজের মনে না যেন মানি ক্ষয়।
আমারে তুমি করিবে ত্রাণ এ নহে মোর প্রার্থনা—
তরিতে পারি শকতি যেন রয়।
আমার ভার লাঘব করি নাই-বা দিলে সান্ত্বনা,
বহিতে পারি এমনি যেন হয়।
নম্রশিরে সুখের দিনে, তোমারি মুখ লইব চিনে—
দুখের রাতে নিখিল ধরা যেদিন করে বঞ্চনা
তোমারে যেন না করি সংশয়।”
― Rabindranath Tagore

“I am the future”
― Bibiana Krall, Quantum-C

“Don't choose to React when you can Respond”
― Ritu Negi

“Beyond the physical, beyond matter, beyond energy, beyond science. It keeps going. It never stops... you see, matter, energy, our whole universe, are not absolutes. They are all fictions of human consciousness. And there are other consciousnesses and other universes. Our space is just one space among infinite spaces.”
― Paddy Chayefsky, Altered States

“Social media isn't very social when it desensitises us, allowing negativity to outweigh positivity with zero consequences.”
― Torron-Lee Dewar