Consciousness Quotes – 72 Insightful Sayings

"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

"If you're going to be a prisoner of your own mind, the least you can do is make sure it's well furnished."

Peter Ustinov

"Most people don’t see their beliefs. Instead their beliefs tell them what to see. That’s the simple difference between clarity and confusion."

Matt Kahn

"The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them."

Rudolf Virchow

"Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness."

Terence McKenna

"And once you are awake, you shall remain awake eternally."

Friedrich Nietzsche

"Within yourself lies the cause of whatever enters into your life. To come into full ralization of your own awakened interior powers is to be able to condition your life in exact accord with what you would have it."

Ralph Waldo Trine

"Man's chief delusion is his conviction that there are causes other than his own state of consciousness."

Neville Goddard

"The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror."

Hans-Georg Gadamer

"Any entity – no matter how many tentacles it has – has a soul."

Guy Consolmagno

"We experience every great moment three times: in our dreams, in reality, and in our memories."

Alexander Engel

"The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English."

Harry Edson Browne

"Awaken from the sleep that tries to convince you that external circumstances determine your life."

Neville Goddard

"Being "awake" isn't cool. It means having to dumb down 98% of your conversations every day so you don't sound like a lunatic."

Dave Chappelle

"One thought cannot awake without awakening others."

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

"Humanity is mind-controlled and only slightly more conscious than your average zombie."

David Icke

"Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness."

Georges I. Gurdjieff

"Remember though, your best weapon is between your ears and under your scalp -provided it's loaded."

Robert A. Heinlein