Quotes about Consciousness
Most men are in a coma when they are at rest and mad when they act.
- Epicurus
A man may call to mind the face of his friend, but not his own. Here, then, is an initial difficulty in the way of applying the maxim, Know Thyself.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Thus, as a result of heightened consciousness, a man feels as if it's all right if he's bad as long as he knows it- as though that were any consolation.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
The man who doesn't know what the universe is doesn't know where he lives.
- Marcus Aurelius
Thought is the most highly organized form of energy known to man.
- Napoleon Hill
The consciousness in each man is a sliding scale, which identifies him now with the First Cause, and now with the flesh of his body; life above life, in infinite degrees.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.
- Gloria Steinem
The sky sinks in the morning, this fact has been insufficiently observed.
- Samuel Beckett
Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.
- Khalil Gibran
I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.
- Laurence Sterne
We become what we think about most of the time, and that's the strangest secret.
- Earl Nightingale
Ecstasy carries you completely outside your ego boundaries. In ecstasy you know yourself as cosmic ego, unbounded in time and space.
- Deepak Chopra