Nothing exists except through human consciousness. – George Orwell 1984. Part 3, Chapter 3. O’Brien to Winston.
Pocketknives are kind of drifting out of our cultural consciousness, which I think is a terrible thing. – Gever Tulley
Consciousness, rather than being something that we have, is something we participate in. – Grant Morrison
I’d like to see the Second Coming in every one of us. That we all be Jesus. That we all embody that consciousness. – Jane Siberry
The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness. – J. M. Coetzee
To regard the soul and body as one, or to ascribe to consciousness a physiological origin, is not detracting from its divinity; it is rather conferring divinity upon the body. – John Burroughs
It’s exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful. – Adrienne Rich
To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness. – Edmund Husserl
I’m a performer and have managed to get my performing into the mainstream consciousness of the world, I guess. – Flea
What does it mean, exactly, for a given system to be a ‘neural correlate of consciousness’? – David Chalmers
Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to. – D. H. Lawrence
I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota. – Fran Lebowitz
The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death. – D. H. Lawrence
What happens is consciousness operates in mysterious ways. One of those ways is that the old paradigm suddenly starts to die. – Deepak Chopra
You can have relatively high levels of class consciousness with a lower level of class militancy than one would have expected. – Ernest Mandel
