Quotes about consciousness

But they for whom I am the supreme goal, who do all work renouncing self for me and meditate on me with single-hearted devotion, these I will swiftly rescue from death's vast sea, for their consciousness has entered into me.

— Bhagavad Gita

The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.

— Joseph Brodsky

It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.

— Samuel Butler

The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient prohibitions.

— Italo Calvino

A sub-clerk in the post-office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them.

— Albert Camus

Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.

— E. M. Cioran

The ego is not master in its own house.

— Sigmund Freud

Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.

— Dean William R. Inge

Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.

— William James

The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility, deprives him of his wholeness and imposes a painful fragmentariness on his life.

— Carl Jung

My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.

— Karl Kraus

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

— D. H. Lawrence

The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.

— Miguel De Unamuno

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

— Source Unknown

It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate Essence, that mainly rests the belief or unbelief in the existence around us of other conscious beings besides the Spirits of the Dead. H. P. Blavatsky

— Helena Petrova Blavatsky

Of Consciousness, her awful Mate. The Soul cannot be rid -- as easy the secreting her behind the Eyes of God.

— Emily Dickinson