consciousness

I still can't watch the funeral. However, they appear in all my scripts and films, because the question of life and death affected my consciousness when I was still a child and left a mark on all my works.

Oleksandr Dovzhenko

Sometimes I speak to men and women just as a little girl speaks to her doll. She knows, of course, that the doll does not understand her, but she creates for herself the joy of communication through a pleasant and conscious self-deception.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

If you want to find an example to copy, look for it among simple, humble people. True greatness, which not only refrains from putting itself on display but isn’t even conscious of its own greatness, is only found among such people.

—Leo Tolstoy

If you want to find an example to copy, look for it among simple, humble people. True greatness, which not only refrains from putting itself on display but isn’t even conscious of its own greatness, is only found among such people.

—Leo Tolstoy

Although your mind works, your heart is darkened with depravity, and without a pure heart, there can be no complete and true consciousness.

—Fyodor Dostoevsky

Without the consciousness of sin, the whole of the gospel will seem to be an idle tale.

—J. Gresham Machen

The philosopher Kant said that two things always astonished and inspired him more and more: the starry sky and the consciousness of the law of kindness that a person recognizes in his soul.

—Leo Tolstoy

Seldom, or perhaps never, does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises; there is no coming to consciousness without pain.

—Carl Jung

We are so captivated by and entangled in our subjective consciousness that we have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions.

—Carl Jung

Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.

—George Orwell

The conscious mind allows itself to be trained like a parrot, but the unconscious does not — which is why St. Augustine thanked God for not making him responsible for his dreams.

—Carl Jung

The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.

—Carl Jung

The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.

—Carl Jung

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.

—Voltaire

[Jesus] was conscious of standing at the turning-point of the ages, when what had never been was now to come to be.

—J. Gresham Machen

Without consciousness there would, practically speaking, be no world, for the world exists as such only in so far as it is consciously reflected and considered by a psyche.

Consciousness is a precondition of being.

—Carl Jung

Without consciousness there would, practically speaking, be no world, for the world exists as such only in so far as it is consciously reflected and considered by a psyche.

Consciousness is a precondition of being.

—Carl Jung

The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness and each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.

—Carl Jung

Every consciousness pursues the death of the other.

—Georg Hegel

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.

—Aldous Huxley

Morality presupposes consciousness.

—Carl Jung

Sometimes I speak to men and women just as a little girl speaks to her doll. She knows, of course, that the doll does not understand her, but she creates for herself the joy of communication through a pleasant and conscious self-deception.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one’s self.. And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one’s self.

—Søren Kierkegaard

When an inner situation is not made conscious it appears outside as fate.

—Carl Jung

Ah how we wander from goal to goal of our life, and often it seems as if one thread of consciousness did not tie the far parts together.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.

—Immanuel Kant

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.

—Aristotle

O what mercies have we to be thankful for, yet how little are we conscious and affectingly and habitually sensible of them.

—William Wilberforce

God’s ancient people, especially the most spiritual among them, were so conscious of the holiness and the greatness of God that they trembled to even use His name.

—Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Social life is based on consciousness, not science. If there’s no honesty, no respect for truth, no respect for responsibilities, no love of one’s neighbor—in a word, if there’s no virtue—everything is in danger, everything crumbles.

—Leo Tolstoy