Consciousness Quotes - Page 24

• We are concerned with similar states of consciousness and relationship to the world.. ..If previous abstractions paralleled the scientific and objective preoccupations of our times, ours are finding a pictoral equivalent for man's new knowledge and consciousness of his more complex inner self.

  Mark Rothko

  Men, Self, World

  Mark Rothko, Miguel López-Remiro (2006). “Writings on Art”, p.46, Yale University Press

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• We are not the only avatars of humanity. Once our computing machines achieved self-consciousness, they became part of this design.

  Dan Simmons

  Self, Design, Humanity

  Dan Simmons (2011). “Endymion”, p.487, Spectra

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• Consciousness is never experienced in the plural, only in the singular. Not only has none of us ever experienced more than one consciousness, but there is also no trace of circumstantial evidence of this ever happening anywhere in the world. If I say that there cannot be more than one consciousness in the same mind, this seems a blunt tautology - we are quite unable to imagine the contrary...

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Mind, World, Imagine

  "Quantum Questions: Mystical Writings of the World's Great Physicists" edited by Ken Wilber, 1984.

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• The ascription of an unconscious intentional phenomenon to a system implies that the phenomenon is in principle accessible to consciousness.

  John Searle

  Principles, Phenomenon, Unconscious

  "Consciousness, Explanatory Inversion, and Cognitive Science". The Behavioral and Brain Sciences 13, 4, December 1990.

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• Consciousness," according to current scientific thought, was something the higher mammals had evolved in order to help them reproduce, much the way a garden slug secretes slime. It had no special ontological status. The "self" was a genetically modulated and biologically useful illusion.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Garden, Self, Order

  Robert Charles Wilson (2000). “The Perseids and Other Stories”, p.151, Macmillan

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• I believe that "government", as we know it today, should pull out of most things except for law enforcement and justice, national defense and foreign policy, and let the private sector, a "Grameenized private sector", a social-consciousness-driven private sector, take over their other functions.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Believe, Government, Law

  Muhammad Yunus (2001). “Banker to the Poor: The Autobiography of Muhammad Yunus, Founder of the Grameen Bank”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Death, however, does itch. It itches all the time. It is always with us, scratching at some inner door. Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness. Hidden in disguise, leaking out in a variety of symptoms. It is the wellspring of many of our worries, stresses, and conflicts.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Death, Stress, Doors

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• I think we ripple on into others, just like a stone puts its ripples into a brook. That, for me, too, is a source of comfort. It kind of, in a sense, negates the sense of total oblivion. Some piece of ourselves, not necessarily our consciousness, but some piece of ourselves gets passed on and on and on.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Thinking, Comfort, Pieces

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• If you see yourself in a favorable light, if your image of yourself is pleasant, if this visual concept of yourself cannot be shaken by temporary defeats, then you have reached the goal achieved by the most fortunate. Not everyone reaches this mental state; in fact, many people do not even believe it is possible. Happiness and peace of mind are a matter of consciousness. We must create the inner-harmony we desire. This type of awareness is not an accident, it comes from study and an understanding that we are truly creative.

  Bob Proctor

  Believe, Light, Temporary Defeat

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Jan 07, 2012

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• The focus of all life is its economy, the mode through which every living creature produces its material existence. I know no other criterion for the evaluation of social life except that of social economy. In society, just like anywhere else, the mode of production is the focus around which revolve all the modes of life: in the historical life of conscious beings, it is also the focus of all modes of consciousness.

  Moses Hess

  Focus, Historical, Evaluation

  "Briefwechsel". Book by Moses Hess, p. 253, 1959.

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• It is what makes conscious of the conditions and laws of observing which applied in this manner become a theme on its own. The activity of consciousness depending on the way the work itself proceeds, becomes the subject of my attention this way and it is precisely because of this voyeuristic attitude toward the own observation and experience of the subject that the conscious analytic dimension in the work shows.

  Antoni Tapies

  Attitude, Law, Attention

  "Tàpies, Werke auf Papier 1943 - 2003" by Antoni Tapies, Kunsthalle Emden, edited by Achim Sommer, Altana, (p. 30), 2004.

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• White lines in movement symbolize a unifying idea which flows through the compartmented units of life bringing the consciousness of a larger relativity.

  Mark Tobey

  Ideas, White, Movement

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• My paintings should become objects into which one could float, as in water, so that one's mind is hung... suspended, and the emanation of the painting would penetrate into people's consciousness.

  Douglas Portway

  Space, Water, People

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• Consciousness is a much smaller part of our mental life than we are conscious of, because we cannot be conscious of what we are not conscious of.

  Julian Jaynes

  Conscious

  Julian Jaynes (2000). “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, p.33, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We have said that consciousness is an operation rather than a thing, a repository, or a function. It operates by way of analogy, by way of constructing an analog space with an analog 'I' that can observe that space, and move metaphorically in it. It operates on any reactivity, excerpts relevant aspects, narratizes and conciliates them together in a metaphorical space where such meanings can be manipulated like things in space.

  Julian Jaynes

  Moving, Space, Together

  Julian Jaynes (2000). “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, p.75, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Conscious mind is a spatial analog of the world and mental acts are analogs of bodily acts. Consciousness operates only on objectively observable things. Or, to say it another way with echoes of John Locke, there is nothing in consciousness that is not an analog of something that was in behavior first.

  Julian Jaynes

  Echoes, Mind, World

  Julian Jaynes (2000). “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, p.76, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• For if consciousness is based on language, then it follows that it is of much more recent origin than has been heretofore supposed. Consciousness come after language! The implications of such a position are extremely serious.

  Julian Jaynes

  Serious, Language, Position

  Julian Jaynes (2000). “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, p.76, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It isn't so much that God is the unified state of consciousness that each of us came from and will return to, but more so that God is the creative energy flowing between all states of consciousness. God is in the land beyond the mountains, but God is also in the mountains and in the valley of illusions cradled within the mountains. God is not one thing or another, rather God flows between and through all things.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Land, Creative, Mountain

  Elizabeth Lesser (2008). “The Seeker's Guide: Making Your Life a Spiritual Adventure”, p.364, Ballantine Books

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• The very aim of meditation is firstly subjugation of the mind, so that it can no longer be an obstacle to a clear vision of the Supreme cliché. Secondly, it is the full silencing of that mind, so that consciousness becomes similar to the mirror-like surface of a quiet lake or pool. I can see the real Reflection of Truth in it then, but not otherwise.

  Mouni Sadhu

  Real, Reflection, Lakes

  Mouni Sadhu (2005). “Meditation: An Outline for Practical Study”, p.196, Karnac Books

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• The family indeed is dead, if what we mean by it is the modern family system in which units comprised of male breadwinner and female homemaker, married couples, and their offspring dominate the land. But its ghost, the ideology of the family, survives to haunt the consciousness of all those who refuse to confront it. It is time to perform a social autopsy on the corpse of the modern family system so that we may try to lay its troublesome spirit to rest.

  Judith Stacey

  Couple, Mean, Land

  Judith Stacey (1996). “In the name of the family: rethinking family values in the postmodern age”, Beacon Pr

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• Death is a stage in human progress, to be passed as we would pass from childhood to youth, or from youth to manhood, and with the same consciousness of an everlasting nature.

  Edmund Sears

  Death, Childhood, Progress

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 177), 1895.

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• Physical processes alone will never completely explain the existence of the universe , life , and consciousness . Religious answers are just wishful thinking and wanton fabrication cast over a bottomless pit of ignorance . To explain their occult and mystical experiences , magicians are forced to develop models beyond the scope of materialistic or religious systems .

  Peter J. Carroll

  Religious, Ignorance, Thinking

  Peter J. Carroll (1987). “Liber Null & Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic”, p.151, Weiser Books

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• To say that historical conditions made personal life possible, and with it the self-consciousness that allowed psychoanalysis to emerge, is to tell half the story: one also has to consider that the erotic impulse, ever pressing for satisfaction, had something to do with making the history that encouraged its expression.

  Ellen Willis

  Self, Expression, Erotic

  "Historical Analysis". "Dissent", Winter 2005.

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• Perhaps only some young women, perhaps only a minority of all women, will be able to effect such changes through consciousness alone, through the strength of understanding, which, if transformed into wisdom, always means the performance of necessary actions.

  Phyllis Chesler

  Mean, Understanding, Minorities

  "Women And Madness". Book by Phyllis Chesler, 2005.

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• My hope is that a religious consciousness will begin to rise, one based on enhancing humanity, grasping life in all of its complex wonder, having the courage to live fully, to love wastefully and to be all that each of us can be and that it will express itself in our national life in more earth centered, justice enhancing and humane ways.

  John Shelby Spong

  Love, Religious, Humane Way

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