Consciousness Quotes – 72 Insightful Sayings

"You are in prison. If you wish to get out of prison, the first thing you must do is realize that you are in prison. If you think you are free, you can't escape."

Georges I. Gurdjieff

"Until they become conscious, they will never rebel, and until they rebel, they cannot become conscious."

George Orwell

"Nothing's changed my life more. I feel better about myself as a person, being conscious and responsible for my actions and I lost weight and my skin cleared up and I got bright eyes and I just became stronger and healthier and happier. Can't think of anything better in the world to be but be vegan."

Alicia Silverstone

"Paradise is not a place, but a state of mind."

Elmar Kupke und Hans-Christoph Neuert

"I've had cocaine, but I don't like it. The Beatles had lots of it in their day, but it's a dumb drug, because you have to have another one 20 minutes later. Your whole concentration goes on getting the next fix. Really, I find caffeine is easier to deal with. … A little mushroom or peyote is not beyond my scope, you know, maybe twice a year or something. You don't hear about it anymore, but people are still visiting the cosmos. We must always remember to thank the CIA and the Army for LSD. That's what people forget. … They invented LSD to control people and what they did was give us freedom. Sometimes it works in mysterious ways its wonders to perform."

John Lennon

"Every time I go to the movies, no matter how alert I am, I come out dumber and worse."

Theodor W. Adorno

"Television deals with the decomposition of human consciousness."

Sergei Petrowitsch Kapiza

"You can never awaken using the same system that put you to sleep in the first place."

Georges I. Gurdjieff

"Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go."

Georges I. Gurdjieff

"I don't believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small."

Terence McKenna

"I suspect that dreams are an integral part of existence, with far more use for us than we've made of them...The fine line between the dream state and reality is at times, for me, quite grey."

David Bowie

"The Highest Thought is always that thought which contains joy. The Clearest Words are those words which contain truth. The Grandest Feeling is that feeling which you call love."

Neale Donald Walsch

"It is you who are choosing, in any moment, to be happy or choosing to be sad, or choosing to be angry, or forgiving, or enlightened, or whatever. You are choosing."

Neale Donald Walsch

"Life is a self-fulfilling prophecy. What you believe about Life will be your experience of Life."

Neale Donald Walsch

"You are already that which you want to be, and your refusal to believe this is the only reason you do not see it."

Neville Goddard

"The best part of being a vegan is the purity and peace of mind one experiences and the strong connection I feel to the animal kingdom."

Uri Geller

"Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men."

Walter Lippmann

"Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience."

Walter Lippmann