Quotes for: consciousness

Science without conscience is only ruin of the soul.
François Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel /

Science without conscience is only ruin of the soul.

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Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
Gottfried Leibniz /

Consciousness is a link between what was and what will be; a bridge between the past and the future.
Henri Bergson - L’Énergie spirituelle /

World history is the progress of the consciousness of freedom.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel /

It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.
Karl Marx /

Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions are the voice of the body.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Emile, or On Education /

Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying.
Albert Camus - The Myth of Sisyphus /

Consciousness is never experienced in the plural, only in the singular.
Erwin Schrödinger /

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Not curiosity, not vanity, not the consideration of expediency, not duty and conscientiousness, but an unquenchable, unhappy thirst that brooks no compromise leads us to truth.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel /

If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.
Alan Watts /

It is in anguish that man becomes conscious of his freedom.
Jean-Paul Sartre - Being and Nothingness /

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
Henry David Thoreau

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
Karl Marx

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.
Pablo Picasso /

The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.
Sigmund Freud