Definition of Consciousness
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
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
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
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
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
Ayn Rand
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
Karl Marx
There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
Carl Jung
Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness.
Henry Miller
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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