Consciousness Quotes

Oh my God, Consciousness! It's the craziest question of all. How can a mass of nerve cells, just chemistry and electricity, produce subjective experience?

I mean, you feel colors, love, pain. This isn't just data processing. There's something much deeper happening here.

Is it just an illusion, a trick conjured by the brain? Or is it the product of a larger entity, a quantum field, or even something spiritual?

The deeper I delve into studying the brain, the more mysterious it becomes. So how did the great thinkers ponder this eternal enigma? Here are their quotes on consciousness, existence, and the soul.

Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche: A thought comes when it will, not when I will....
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: For most people on the planet, consciousness can be equated with thought. They haven't experienced w...
Quote by Soren Kierkegaard: Which is more difficult, to awaken one who sleeps or to awaken one who, awake, dreams that he is awa...
Quote by Carl Jung: Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the black...
Quote by William James: Marvelous as may be the power of my dog to understand my moods, deathless as his affection and fidel...
Quote by Lao Tzu: A good athlete can enter a state of body-awareness in which the right stroke or the right movement h...
Quote by William James: There is a stream, a succession of states, or waves, or fields (or whatever you please to call them)...
Quote by William James: The stream of thought flows on; but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion....
Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: We do not yet trust the unknown power of thoughts....
Quote by Carl Jung: Consciousness succumbs all too easily to unconscious influences, and these are often truer and wiser...
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: It is the stillness that will save and transform the world....
Quote by Heraclitus: Those unmindful when they hear, for all they make of their intelligence, may be regarded as the walk...
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me...
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness....
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: Peace is your priority, not saving the world. That follows that....
Quote by Carl Jung: In the history of the collective as in the history of the individual, everything depends on the deve...
Quote by Virginia Woolf: In certain favorable moods, memories -- what one has forgotten -- come to the top. Now if this is so...
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: When you awaken spiritually, in fact, you can use thought much more effectively than before, but you...
Quote by Karl Marx: It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social b...
Quote by Bob Marley: When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself....
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: If I accept the fact that my relationships are here to make me conscious, instead of happy, then my ...
Quote by William James: All the daily routine of life, our dressing and undressing, the coming and going from our work or ca...
Quote by Blaise Pascal: It is not from space that I must seek my dignity, but from the government of my thought. I shall hav...
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: Some people say, the world can be so alive! It always is, you just do not know it because of the scr...
Quote by Karl Marx: Life is not determined by consciousness, but consciousness by life....
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: What is the relationship between awareness and thinking? Awareness is the space in which thoughts ex...
Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer: One can forget everything, everything, only not oneself, one's own being....
Quote by William James: Consciousness... does not appear to itself chopped up in bits. Such words as 'chain' or 'train' do n...
Quote by George Carlin: Hallucinogens are a value changer...like it or not, it changes your values, it opens up windows (doo...
Quote by Albert Camus: A man who has become conscious of the absurd is for ever bound to it....
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: The best indicator of your level of consciousness is how you deal with life's challenges when they c...
Quote by Carl Jung: Many who know something but not enough about dreams and their meaning...are liable to succumb to the...
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: My sense of identity broke down and was replaced by something that is very hard to put into words. A...
Quote by Alan Watts: As the fish doesn't know water, people are ignorant of space.  Consciousness is concerned only with ...
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: Humans are potentially capable of living in a state of consciousness compared to which normal wakefu...
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: For many people, the first indication of a spiritual awakening is that they suddenly become aware of...
Quote by George Bernard Shaw: Consciousness of a fact is not knowing it: if it were, the fish would know more of the sea than the ...
Quote by Karl Marx: Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state....
Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky: And yet I am convinced that man will never give up true suffering- that is, destruction and chaos. W...
Quote by Swami Vivekananda: I am neither the mind, nor the intellect, nor the ego, nor the mind-stuff...
Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer: the brut first knows death when it dies, but man draws consciously nearer to it every hour that he l...
Quote by Immanuel Kant: I have no knowledge of myself as I am, but merely as I appear to myself....
Quote by Rumi: Inside a Lover's Heart,there's another world,and yet another....
Quote by Carl Jung: The unconscious mind of man sees correctly even when conscious reason is blind and impotent....
Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The light is there, and colors surround us. However, if there were no light nor colors in our own ey...
Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more....
Quote by Swami Vivekananda: Purusha is the; great attraction of the universe; though untouched by and unconnected with the unive...
Quote by George Orwell: The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed...
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: The animals are at a level prior to thinking. They haven't lost themselves in thought. We rise above...
Quote by George Sand: Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it....
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: Vigilance in oneself is very important. Vigilance means to be alert to what happens inside, so you c...
Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: No one knows what he is doing so long as he is acting rightly; but of what is wrong one is always co...
Quote by Albert Einstein: A problem cannot be solved at the level of consciousness in which it occurs....
Quote by Kahlil Gibran: Every man is two men; one is awake in the darkness, the other asleep in the light....
Quote by C.S. Lewis: If minds are wholly dependent on brains and brains on biochemistry, and biochemistry (in the long ru...
Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky: I swear to you gentlemen, that to be overly conscious is a sickness, a real, thorough sickness....
Quote by Virginia Woolf: Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparen...
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: A huge number of people are going through the process of awakening, some in the early stages, some i...
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: Sometimes people need to experience acute suffering before the thinking and the awareness of the con...
Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: In good company, the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with th...