D. H. Lawrence Quotes About Consciousness

Quotes about: Consciousness

• The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Intuition, Mind, Body

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.10014, Delphi Classics

• There are vast realms of consciousness still undreamed of -vast ranges of experience, like humming of unseen harps, we know nothing of, within us.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Inspirational, Unseen, Consciousness

• The picture must all come out of the artist's inside, awareness of forms and figures... It is more than memory. It is the image as it lives in the consciousness, alive like a vision, but unknown.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Art, Vision, Alive

  "The Sayings of D. H. Lawrence".

• Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Literature, Consciousness, Ends

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation”, p.93, Cambridge University Press

• Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Life, Beauty, Sex

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2004). “D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles”, p.145, Cambridge University Press

• Sanity means the wholeness of the consciousness. And our society is only part conscious, like an idiot.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Mean, Our Society, Idiot

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6708, Delphi Classics

• Sex is our deepest form of consciousness. It is utterly non-ideal, non-mental. It is pure blood-consciousness.... It is the consciousness of the night, when the soul is almost asleep.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sex, Night, Blood

  D. H. Lawrence (2012). “Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious and Fantasia of the Unconscious”, p.202, Courier Corporation

• I believe a man is born first unto himself - for the happy developing of himself, while the world is a nursery, and the pretty things are to be snatched for, and pleasant things tasted; some people seem to exist thus right to the end. But most are born again on entering manhood; then they are born to humanity, to a consciousness of all the laughing, and the never-ceasing murmur of pain and sorrow that comes from the terrible multitudes of brothers.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Brother, Pain, Believe

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2000). “The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.7, Cambridge University Press

• The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Literature, Forget, Consciousness

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation”, p.51, Cambridge University Press

• He had made a passionate study of education, only to come, gradually, to the knowledge that education is nothing but the process of building up, gradually, a complete unit of consciousness. And each unit of consciousness is the living unit of that great social, religious, philosophic idea towards which humankind, like an organism seeking its final form, is laboriously growing.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Education, Religious, Building Up

  D. H. Lawrence, David Farmer, David R. Farmer, Lindeth Vasey, John Worthen (1987). “Women in Love”, p.495, Cambridge University Press

• And that is how we are. By strength of will we cut off our inner intuitive knowledge from admitted consciousness. This causes a state of dread, or apprehension, which makes the blow ten times worse when it does fall.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Fall, Cutting, Blow

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3944, Delphi Classics

• The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Christian, Men, Literature

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation”, p.86, Cambridge University Press

• It was as if thousands and thousands of little roots and threads of consciousness in him and her had grown together into a tangled mass, till they could crowd no more, and the plant was dying. Now quietly, subtly, she was unravelling the tangle of his consciousness and hers, breaking the threads gently, one by one, with patience and impatience to get clear.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Roots, Tangled, Dying

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3759, Delphi Classics

• That is the real pivot of all bourgeois consciousness in all countries: fear and hate of the instinctive, intuitional, procreativebody in man or woman. But of course this fear and hate had to take on a righteous appearance, so it became moral, said that the instincts, intuitions and all the activities of the procreative body were evil, and promised a reward for their suppression. That is the great clue to bourgeois psychology: the reward business.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Country, Sex, Real

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8966, Delphi Classics

• There is a brief time for sex, and a long time when sex is out of place. But when it is out of place as an activity there still should be the large and quiet space in the consciousness where it lives quiescent. Old people can have a lovely quiescent sort of sex, like apples, leaving the young quite free for their sort.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sex, Apples, Space

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton, Keith Sagar (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.106, Cambridge University Press

• Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition." "And they rock, and they rock, through the sensual ageless ages on the depths of the seven seas, and through the salt they reel with drunken delight and in the tropics tremble they with love and roll with massive, strong desire, like gods.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Strong, Sex, Rocks

• The goal is to know how not-to-know.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Knowledge, Goal, Consciousness

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8261, Delphi Classics

• 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

  Education, Ignorance, Knowledge

  D. H. Lawrence (2006). “Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious and Fantasia of the Unconscious”, p.112, Courier Corporation

• The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Rest Of Life, Literature, Care

  D. H. Lawrence, Simonetta de Filippis (2002). “Sketches of Etruscan Places and Other Italian Essays”, p.200, Cambridge University Press

• The only true aristocracy is that of consciousness.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Poetry, Novelists, Aristocracy

• And this is the final meaning of work: the extension of human consciousness. The lesser meaning of work is the achieving of self-preservation.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Change, Work, Self

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.4779, Delphi Classics

• Every profound new movement makes a great swing also backwards to some older, half-forgotten way of consciousness.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Change, Swings, Profound

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation”, p.80, Cambridge University Press

• 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

  Hate, Civilization, Doe

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2000). “The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.414, Cambridge University Press

• Plant consciousness, insect consciousness, fish consciousness, all are related by one permanent element, which we may call the religious element inherent in all life, even in a flea: the sense of wonder. That is our sixth sense, and it is the natural religious sense.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Religious, Elements, May

  'Hymns in a Man's Life'. Collected in Pheonix II: Uncollected, Unpublished and Other ProseWorks (1968).

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