Quotes about Consciousness
God himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ages.
— Henry David Thoreau
To be alone was something unpleasant. But I was at the same time conscious of a slight insanity in my mood, and seemed to foresee my recovery.
— Henry David Thoreau
It is the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see.
— Henry David Thoreau
Do not engage to find things as you think they are.
— Henry David Thoreau
The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring.
— Henry David Thoreau
The unconsciousness of man is the consciousness of God.
— Henry David Thoreau
I was always conscious of sounds in nature which my ears could never hear,—that I caught but the prelude to a strain. She always retreats as I advance. Away behind and behind is she and her meaning. Will not this faith and expectation make to itself ears at length?
— Henry David Thoreau
Nothing was ever so unfamiliar and startling to a man as his own thoughts
— Henry David Thoreau
do not let your left hand know what your right hand does, for it is not worth knowing.
— Henry David Thoreau
We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.
— Henry David Thoreau
Because no man can ever feel his own identity aright except his eyes be closed; as if darkness were indeed the proper element of our essences, though light be more congenial to our clayey part.
— Herman Melville
If you watch what you think about, you won't have to watch what you talk about.
— Bill Johnson