The historic ascent of humanity taken as a whole may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature in society in man himself.

There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and the brain.

Well you know I was raised by a 1970s feminist. My mom had a consciousness-raising group. I used to sit at the top of the stairs and listen to them.

One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the demands now being put forward by the leadership.

Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.

Without consciousness and intelligence the universe would lack meaning.

But it has in addition an even more precious quality - a consciousness of the human intelligence the human spirit and that man is a social creature.

And when they encounter works of art which show that using new media can lead to new experiences and to new consciousness and expand our senses our perception our intelligence our sensibility then they will become interested in this music.

The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.

A radical inner transformation and rise to a new level of consciousness might be the only real hope we have in the current global crisis brought on by the dominance of the Western mechanistic paradigm.

What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?

The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

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

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life and not only life but that great consciousness of life.

When you sing with a group of people you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy the great social virtue.

We are witnessing an enormous shift of collective consciousness throughout the world. We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government.

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

All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved.

I believe it is essential for our planetary future to develop tools that can change the consciousness which has created the crisis that we are in.

Chris Hemsworth is like Christopher Reeve in that he can do two things: he can wear a big red cape without a shred of self-consciousness. But he's also funny as hell and he's so sweet. So with all the fish-out-of-water stuff he's so funny. So he does almost two jobs in a way.

The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder the more they will grant others their own freedom and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.