Consciousness Quotes - Page 30

• It is a depressing fact that Americans tend to confuse morality and art (to the detriment of both) and that, among the educated, morality tends to mean social consciousness.

  Pauline Kael

  Depressing, Art, Mean

  pauline kael (1965). “i lost it at the movies”

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• In a certain sense a writer is 'selected' by his subject - his subject being the consciousness of his own era.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Eras, Certain, Subjects

  Nadine Gordimer, Nancy Topping Bazin, Marilyn Dallman Seymour (1990). “Conversations with Nadine Gordimer”, p.217, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• We come, in our trust, unto God, and the moment we so embrace Him, by committing our total being and eternity to Him, we find every thing is transformed. There is life in us from God; a kind of Christ-consciousness is opened in us, testifying with the apostle,--Christ liveth in me.

  Horace Bushnell

  Trust, Christ Consciousness, Kind

  Horace Bushnell (1866). “The New Life”, p.55

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• Falling in love is like religious conversion. It goes on for a long time below the threshold before it reaches consciousness.

  Helen McCloy

  Religious, Falling In Love, Love Is

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• True felicity consists of its own consciousness.

  Antoine Rivarol

  Felicity

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• It is inherent in human consciousness to improve. So there is nothing unique about a people searching for and creating ways to make their life better - all civilizations throughout history have done this. What is unique about us in America is the accelerated rate at which we continually search for novelty and progress.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Unique, Civilization, Creating

  Barbara De Angelis (1995). “Real Moments”, Dell

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• Pleasure is an important component of the quality of life, but by itself it does not bring happiness. Pleasure helps to maintain order, but by itself cannot create a new order in consciousness.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Order, Important, Quality

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2013). “Flow: The Psychology of Happiness”, p.46, Random House

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• The time is probably not far distant when music will stand revealed perchance as the mightiest of the arts, and certainly as the one art peculiarly representative of our modern world, with its intense life, complex civilization, and feverish self-consciousness.

  Hugh Reginald Haweis

  Music, Art, Self

  Hugh Reginald Haweis (1873). “Music and Morals”, p.10, London : Strahan

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• What can defeat greed, technological superiority, and legal lawlessness ... is discipline, consciousness, and unity.

  Toni Cade Bambara

  Discipline, Greed, Unity

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• Perhaps every moment of time lived in human consciousness remains in the air around us.

  Susan Griffin

  Air, Moments, Humans

  Susan Griffin (2015). “A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War”, p.71, Open Road Media

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• Once you understand the power of stimulus control, you can use it to your advantage by changing the stimuli in your environment and avoiding undesirable ones; or, if that's not possible, by filling your consciousness with thoughts about their less tempting aspects.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Use, Environment, Filling

  Jonathan Haidt (2006). “The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom”, p.18, Basic Books

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• I make up the characters in my books, but of course my consciousness is filled with every child I've ever known, including my two grandchildren, my own kids (I had four) and especially myself as a child, because that person still lives inside me, too.

  Lois Lowry

  Children, Book, Character

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• It isn't enough to have had an interesting or hilarious or tragic life. Art isn't anecdote. It's the consciousness we bring to bear on our lives. For what happened in the story to transcend the limits of the personal, it must be driven by the engine of what the story means.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Art, Mean, Interesting

  Cheryl Strayed (2013). “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There”, p.222, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Sometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regain consciousness

  Ray Bradbury

  Thinking, Sometimes

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• The history of the women's movement in America follows a consciousness-amnesia cycle.

  Carol Tavris

  America, Movement, Amnesia

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• When souls really touch, it is forever. Then space and time disappear, and all that remains is the consciousness that we are not alone in life.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Space, Forever, Soul

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• If the tonal predominates, which we see now more in the world, there's no mystery - understanding of consciousness or awareness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Understanding, World

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• As we slam you with more and more devastating blows of the nagual, at the same time, we strengthen and clear the tonal so that it can easily withstand them - so there is no loss in continuity of consciousness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Loss, Blow

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• Now, if the cooperation of some thousands of millions of cells in our brain can produce our consciousness, a true singularity, the idea becomes vastly more plausible that the cooperation of humanity, or some sections of it, may determine what Comte calls a Great Being.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Cells, Ideas, Humanity

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• And when, in the evening of life, the golden clouds rest sweetly and invitingly upon the golden mountains, and the light of heaven streams down through the gathering mists of death, I wish you a peaceful and abundant entrance into that world of blessedness, where the great riddle of life will be unfolded to you in the quick consciousness of a soul redeemed and purified.

  J. G. Holland

  Death, Clouds, Light

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 185, 1895.

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• The age-long history of thinking on gravitation, too, was erased from the collective consciousness, and that force somehow became the serendipitous child of Newton's genius. The new attitude is well illustrated by the anecdote of the apple, a legend spread by Voltaire, one of the most active and vehement erasers of the past. ... The need to build the myth of an ex nihilo creation of modern science gave rise to much impassioned rhetoric.

  Lucio Russo

  Children, Attitude, Past

  "The Forgotten Revolution: How Science Was Born in 300 BC and Why It Had to Be Reborn". Book by Lucio Russo, 2004.

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• Man is saved by love and duty, and by the hope that springs from duty, or rather from the moral facts of consciousness, as a flower springs from the soil.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Spring, Flower, Men

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• Any man shall speak the better when he knows what others have said, and sometimes the consciousness of his inward knowledge gives a confidence to his outward behavior, which of all other is the best thing to grace a man in his carriage.

  Owen Feltham

  Men, Giving, Grace

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• Obviously there is pain in childbirth. But giving birth is also a moment of awe and wonder, a moment when the true miracle of aliveness, and of a woman's amazing part in that miracle, is suddenly experienced in every cell of one's body. It is in that sense truly an altered state of consciousness.

  Riane Eisler

  Pain, Cells, Awe And Wonder

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• Good will, that curious product of consciousness, of leisure and energy to spare and share. That thing we put out against the forces of interest. That extra thing. Religions and nations and political parties have taken it and used it as coinage, have said you must only give it in exchange for value.

  Naomi Mitchison

  Taken, Party, Giving

  Naomi Mitchison (1990). “A Girl Must Live: Stories and Poems”

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