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“For instance, men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by which they are conditioned.” Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
“Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.” George Orwell, 1984
“There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it.” H. G. Wells, The Time Machine
“Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.” Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born
“The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action.” Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do
“suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground
“In certain diseased conditions consciousness is a mere spark, without memory of the past or thought of the future, and with the present narrowed down to some one simple emotion or sensation of the body.” William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience
“It is that our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.” William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience
“It's hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness.” Carl Sagan, Contact
“Desire is appetite with consciousness thereof.” Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
“I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness—a real thorough-going illness.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground
“Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic ; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as the reality of the external world, and it is just as imperfectly reported to us through the data of consciousness as is the external world...” Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
“Examples of truths known to us by immediate consciousness, are our own bodily sensations and mental feelings. I know directly, and of my own knowledge, that I was vexed yesterday, or that I am hungry to-day.” John Stuart Mill, A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive
“Even sleepers and dreamers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the universe.” Heraclitus, On Nature
“She wanted to exist only as a conscious flower, prolonging and preserving itself.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
“A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.” Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
“He was conscious of nothing except the blankness of the page in front of him, the itching of the skin above his ankle, the blaring of the music, and a slight booziness caused by the gin.” George Orwell, 1984
“Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.” George Orwell, 1984
“Nothing in the real world is as beautiful as the illusions of a person about to lose consciousness.” Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
“The earth is as old as we are, no older. How could it be older? Nothing exists except through human consciousness.” George Orwell, 1984
“I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is improbably biased toward consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed.” John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that’s what everyone else does.” John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“the man is, as it were, clapped into jail by his consciousness.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
“Anarchism is the only philosophy which brings to man the consciousness of himself; which maintains that God, the State, and society are non-existent, that their promises are null and void, since they can be fulfilled only through man's subordination.” Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays
“But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy ambition, of hope more sordid than despair, of incessant passage up or down, which in every metropolis is most in evidence through the...” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
“I think perhaps we want a more conscious life.” Sinclair Lewis, Main Street

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