(597 quotes found)
“Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“That's one reason there's so much drug abuse: people are not shown other ways to alter their consciousness. All we have is the mall and the video rental shop; that's our cultural experience, our museums.”
Karen Finley
“The challenge for me is still to do something that hasn't been beaten into the movie going consciousness. Otherwise what am I in it for?”
Johnny Depp
“The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.”
Henry Miller
“. . . full sexual consciousness and a natural regulation of sexual life mean the end of mystical feelings of any kind, that, in other words, natural sexuality is the deadly enemy of mystical religion. The church, by making the fight over sexuality the center of its dogmas and of its influence over the masses, confirms this concept.”
Wilhelm Reich
“. . . because learning begins when consciousness erupts, education must also.”
Friedrich Froebel
“Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.”
M. Esther Harding
“Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.”
Karl Marx
“Consciousness is a disease”
Miguel de Unamuno
“How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
