Consciousness Quotes - Page 32

• The moral improvement demands an evolution leading to a higher consciousness.

  African Spir

  Demand, Moral, Evolution

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 60), 1937.

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• In life we only try to produce, to win, and enjoy the more we can; in science, to discoverand invent the more we can; in religion, to dominate (or rule over) on the greatest number of people we can; whereas the forming of the character, the further development (or in-dept analysis, "appronfondissement", Fr.) of the faculties of the intelligence ("les facultés de l'intelligence", Fr.), the refinement of the consciousness and of the heart, are considered incidental (or subordinate) things.

  African Spir

  Character, Heart, Winning

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 52), 1937.

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• Moral improvement (or perfecting) require an evolution leading to a higher consciousness, which is the true torch of life; it is what we have failed too much to appreciate, and that which would be fatal to fail to appreciate any longer ("pluslongtemps", Fr.); For if we do not take it upon ourselves to remedy in time to the moral colapse (or bankruptcy) that already threaten, the whole civilisation will risks to disappear.

  African Spir

  Appreciate, Risk, Too Much

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 60), 1937.

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• The distinction between right and wrong ("la distinction du bien et du mal", Fr.), is nothing else than their unyielding (or implacable) opposition; thus the moral consciousness is an innate and intimate revelation of the absolute, which goes beyond (or goes pass, or exceed) every empirical data (or given information). It is only on these principles that we will be able to establish ("pourront être édifiées", Fr.) the real basis of morality.

  African Spir

  Real, Data, Principles

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 60), 1937.

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• The unbroken realization that you are indivisible from the universe, from universal consciousness, from the source of everything - that you are that source, that there is no other, no second, nothing that is not part of that unity, except as transitory illusion. If you could maintain that realization at all times, through waking and sleeping states of consciousness, across the threshold of death itself, what would you be?

  Daniel Pinchbeck

  Death, Sleep, Unity

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• Often we hate in others the thing which we fear in ourselves; or we hate because the other person raises to our consciousness some fault or inadequacy which we would prefer to have remain unconscious, and therefore without power to disturb our self-complacency.

  Frances G. Wickes

  Hate, Self, Complacency

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• If it true that perception is reality, then what is shown on TV is that part of the collective consciousness known as Public Knowledge, that is, the fragment of reality which the mass of people acknowledge to be true.

  Jennifer Stone

  Knowledge, Reality, People

  Jennifer Stone (1988). “Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television”

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• If we don't like what's happening to us in the world, all we have to do is change our consciousness - and the world out there changes for us!

  Lester Levenson

  World, Happenings, Ifs

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• In 1850, August Salzmann photographed, near Jerusalem, the road to Beith-Lehem (as it was spelled at the time): nothing but stony ground, olive trees; but three tenses dizzy my consciousness: my present, the time of Jesus, and that of the photographer, all this under the instance of 'reality' - and no longer through the elaborations of the text, whether fictional or poetic, which itself is never credible down to the root.

  Roland Barthes

  Jesus, Reality, August

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• Self-consciousness can destroy a performance. Getting rid of that is always good.

  Joe Dempsie

  Self, Performances, Self Consciousness

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We're cognizant, curious beings, capable of philosophical thought, nuclear physics, repeating Nerf weapons, global consciousness, Glade air fresheners, and sentient automobiles. But we're assholes first.

  Nick Offerman

  Philosophical, Air, Firsts

  Nick Offerman (2013). “Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living”, p.47, Penguin

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• I often reflect on what an extraordinary time (pun intended) it is to be alive here in the beginning of the twenty-first century. It took life billions of years to get to this point. It took humans thousands of years to piece together a meaningful understanding of our cosmos, our planet and ourselves. Think how fortunate we are to know this much. But think also of all that's yet to be discovered. Here's hoping the deep answers to the deep questions-from the nature of consciousness to the origin of life-will be found in not too much more time.

  Bill Nye

  Meaningful, Thinking, Years

  Bill Nye (2014). “Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation”, p.39, St. Martin's Press

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• But I would assert that despite the wide variety of yoga options and individual preferences, there is one universal element: the union of consciousness and movement, breath and awareness.

  Carre Otis

  Yoga, Elements, Movement

  "Flexibility, Inside and Out" by Carre Otis, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2012.

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• Total revolution of consciousness and our entire social, political and economic system is what interests me, but that's not on the ballot.

  Russell Brand

  Political, Revolution, Economic

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm just one gigantic ball of rancid fear and self-consciousness. I'm entirely fueled by fear, so the fact that I knew it could be a catastrophic disaster made me unable to sleep, and made me work quite hard.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Sleep, Self, Facts

  Interview with Jennifer Lawrence, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 12, 2015.

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• What moments of despair that life would ever be made precious to me by the consciousness that I lived to some good purpose! It was that sort of despair that sucked away the sap of half the hours which might have been filled by energetic youthful activity: and the same demon tries to get hold of me again whenever an old work is dismissed and a new one is being meditated.

  George Eliot

  Despair, Trying, Sap

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.407, 谷月社

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• Every generous action loves the public view; yet no theatre for virtue is equal to a consciousness of it.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Views, Theatre, Action

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2005). “Tusculan Disputations: On the Nature of Gods, and the Commonwealth”, p.90, Cosimo, Inc.

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• No evil is insupportable but that which is accompanied with consciousness of wrong.

  Samuel Johnson

  Evil

  Samuel Johnson (1977). “Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.126, Univ of California Press

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• It is your soul's journey to enroll the ego in the quest for the ultimate victory - the evolution of your own individual consciousness.

  Debbie Ford

  Journey, Ego, Soul

  Debbie Ford (2009). “The 21-Day Consciousness Cleanse: A Breakthrough Program for Connecting with Your Soul's Deepest Purpose”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• Okay, everyone please be completely quiet, because I can literally hear a whisper, and it’ll throw off my stream of consciousness, and when I get my stream of consciousness going that’s when I give the best, illest quotes. Literally, a whisper can throw it off.

  Kanye West

  Oxford, Giving, Quiet

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• Suggestibility varies as the amount of disaggregation, and inversely as the unification of consciousness.

  Boris Sidis

  Unification, Amount, Vary

  Boris Sidis (1907). “Studies in Psychopathology”

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• The fact that psychology postulates an external material world and studies it in so far as it comes to be reflected in consciousness, points to another postulate which psychology must assume in addition, namely, the existence of an inner world consciousness.

  Boris Sidis

  Psychology, World, Facts

  Boris Sidis (1914). “The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology”

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• Mental synthesis of psychic content in the unity of a moment-consciousness is a fundamental principle of psychology.

  Boris Sidis

  Psychics, Psychology, Unity

  Boris Sidis (1914). “The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology”

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• If society is to progress on a truly humanistic basis, without being subject to mental epidemics and virulent social diseases to which the subconscious falls an easy victim, the personal consciousness of every individual should be cultivated to the highest degree possible.

  Boris Sidis

  Fall, Epidemics, Progress

  "The Source and Aim of Human Progress". Book by Boris Sidis, 1919.

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• We are like icebergs in the ocean: one-eighth part consciousness and the rest submerged beneath the surface of articulate apprehension.

  William Gerhardie

  Ocean, Beneath The Surface, Iceberg

  1925 Polyglots, ch.14.

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