Quotes about Consciousness
Two times two will be four even without my will. Is that what you call man's free will?
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
A man who has become conscious of the absurd is for ever bound to it.
- Albert Camus
The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He experiences that other life in his own.
- Albert Schweitzer
Thought is a man in his wholeness, wholly attending.
- DH Lawrence
There are some men formed with feelings so blunt that they can hardly be said to be awake during the whole course of their lives.
- Edmund Burke
The unconsciousness of man is the consciousness of God.
- Henry David Thoreau
My actions are my only true belongings.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Knowledge is according to the mode of the one who knows; for the thing known is in the knower according to the mode of the knower.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Itaque inter omnis omnium gentium summa constat; omnibus enim innatum est et in animo quasi insculptum esse deos.
- Cicero
Live as if you were living for the second time and had acted as wrongly the first time as you are about to act now.
- Viktor E. Frankl