Quotes about Consciousness
Man's ethics must not end with man, but should extend to the universe. He must regain the consciousness of the great Chain of Life from which he cannot be separated.
— Albert Schweitzer
Man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.
— Elbert Hubbard
What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from self?
— William Law
Man is the mirror God holds up to himself, the sense organ with which he apprehends his being.
— Carl Jung
For God's sake, let us be men not monkeys minding machines or sitting with our tails curled while the machine amuses us, the radio or film or gramophone. Monkeys with a bland grin on our faces.
— DH Lawrence
Man does not have a soul. He is a soul. He has a body.
— CS Lewis
Man is unique in that, unlike animals, he knows he is going to die, and unlike animals he can do something about it.
— Ray Comfort
The only thing about a man that is a man is his mind.
— Earl Nightingale
Two times two will be four even without my will. Is that what you call man's free will?
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
A man who has become conscious of the absurd is for ever bound to it.
— Albert Camus
The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He experiences that other life in his own.
— Albert Schweitzer