Definition of Consciousness

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Consciousness

The state of being conscious; knowledge of one's own existence, condition, sensations, mental operations, acts, etc.

Immediate knowledge or perception of the presence of any object, state, or sensation. See the Note under Attention.

Feeling, persuasion, or expectation; esp., inward sense of guilt or innocence.

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Consciousness Quotations

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
Albert Einstein

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
Ayn Rand

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.
Lao Tzu

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.
Napoleon Bonaparte

When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
Joseph Campbell

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

If you put yourself in a position where you have to stretch outside your comfort zone, then you are forced to expand your consciousness.
Les Brown

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
Voltaire

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Consciousness Translations

consciousness in Danish is bevidsthed
consciousness in Dutch is besef, bezinning, bewustzijn
consciousness in Latin is animus
consciousness in Norwegian is bevissthet
consciousness in Spanish is consciencia
consciousness in Swedish is medvetande

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