Quotations

QUOTES FROM SOME OF THE BRIGHTEST MINDS IN HISTORY OF HUMAN SCIENCE, FOR YOUR DAILY INSPIRATION.

Consciousness is the presence of God in man

Emanuel Swedenborg

Science and religion are not in contrast, but they need each other to complete themselves in the mind of a man who thinks seriously.

Max Planck

Consciousness is the theater, and precisely the only theater on which everything that takes place in the Universe is represented, the vessel that contains everything, absolutely everything, and outside which nothing exists

Erwin Shrödinger

Our psyche is constituted in harmony with the structure of the universe, and what happens in the macrocosm happens equally in the infinitesimal and more subjective recesses of the soul.

Carl Gustav Jung

Everything is an enigma and the key to an enigma is another enigma

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are stardust that think about the stars

Carl Sagan

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

Emanuel Swedenborg

All the visible rests on an invisible background, what is known on a background that cannot be known, what is tangible on an intangible backdrop.

Novalis

Men of broader intellect know that there is no clear distinction between the real and the unreal, that things appear as they seem only by virtue of the delicate physical and mental instruments through which we perceive them.

Howard Phillips Lovecraft

It is easier to break an atom than a prejudice.

Albert Einstein

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

Cicero

People see only what they are ready to see.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Consciousness, in the chaos of the world, is a small light, precious but fragile.

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Your vision becomes clear only when you look inside your heart. Who looks out, dreams. Who looks inside, wakes up.

Carl Gustav Jung

Those who were seen dancing were considered crazy by those who could not listen to the music.

Attributed to Friedrich Nietzsche

Immerse yourself in Matter… It will then take you to God.

Teilhard de Chardin

You are the vast space in which everything happens.

Eckhart Tolle

The world as we have created it is a result of our thinking. We cannot change it unless we change our way of thinking.

Albert Einstein

Do not look for yourself outside yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Scientific truths cannot be decided by majority vote.

Galileo Galilei

Everyone knows that something is impossible to achieve, until a fool arrives who does not know and invents it.

Albert Einstein

As above, so below.

Hermes Trismegistus

Why do you deny that the universe is a conscious intelligence when it gives life to conscious intelligences?”

Cicero

And this light that shines above this sky, higher than anything else, higher than any thing, in the highest world above which there is no other world, is the same light that is in man.

Upanishad

All the things that are really great, at first sight seem impossible.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Creative life is always based on the values of the self, not on the values of the system.

Clark Moustakis

Consciousness is not a thing among things, but it is the horizon that contains everything.

Edmund Husserl

The brain is a necessary but not sufficient organ to explain consciousness.

Massimo Gandolfini

You ask what the absolute is. It is the essence of your soul before everything.

Upanishads

Quantum mechanics is not the last word. There is something else that escapes us.

Paul Dirac

For computers or robots to work upstream there must be a conscious understanding of the human programmers who design them.

Paul Dirac

More original is a discovery, more obvious it seems in retrospect.

Arthur Koestler

Science is what we understand well enough to explain it to a computer. Art is everything else.

Donald Knuth

Mystery is the fundamental emotion that lies at the source of true art and true science.

Albert Einstein

The history of evolution teaches that the universe has never stopped being creative or inventive.

Karl Popper

Spiritual awakening is the most essential thing in human life, it is the only purpose of existence.

Khalil Gibran

A single strength, Love, unites infinite worlds and makes them come alive.

Giordano Bruno

“… the love that moves the sun and the other stars.”

Dante Alighieri, Paradiso, Canto XXXIII, verso 145

Try to bring back the divine that is in us to the divine that is in the universe.

Plotinus

The many cannot be conceived without one.

Parmenides

It is not matter that generates thought, it is thought that generates matter.

Giordano Bruno

The wise person is not the one who makes the least mistakes. It’s the one that learns the most from mistake.

Harvey B. Mackay

We cannot solve problems with the same kind of consciousness we used when we created them.

Albert Einstein

Things are united by invisible bonds. You can’t pick a flower without upsetting a star.

Galileo Galilei

The value of a person lies in what he is capable of giving and not in what he is capable of taking.

Albert Einstein

Our every cognition starts with feelings.

Leonardo da Vinci

If you can dream it you can do it.

Walt Disney

What today is proven was once only imagined.

William Blake

Creativity requires the courage to abandon certainties.

Eric Fromm

What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and variations in the structure of space.

E.Schrodinger

Quantum physics thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe.

Erwin Schrodinger

The solution of the mystery of life in space and time lies outside space and time.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.

Max Planck

Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows ‘I am!’ No one can deny his own being.

Ramana Maharshi

I would argue that nothing gives life more purpose than the realization that every moment of consciousness is a precious and fragile gift.

Steven Pinker

We’re all affected by music. It has the power to inspire, uplift us, change our moods, and even alter consciousness.

Andrew Weil

Even when I was studying mathematics, physics, and computer science, it always seemed that the problem of consciousness was about the most interesting problem out there for science to come to grips with.

David Chalmers

The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness.

J. M. Coetzee

Consciousness surely does not depend on language. Babies, many animals, and patients robbed of speech by brain damage are not insensate robots; they have reactions like ours that indicate that someone’s home.

Steven Pinker

Studying consciousness tells us more about how the world is fundamentally strange. I think we have a few revolutions to go yet before we get to the bottom of it.

David Chalmers

Our intellect, our awareness, and our consciousness are the most powerful form of life on this planet.

James McAvoy

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.

Stanislav Grof

What is consciousness? Our brain simulates reality. So, our everyday experiences are a form of dreaming, which is to say, they are mental models, simulations, not the things they appear to be.

Stephen LaBerge