consciousness Quotes

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.

I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.

The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?

When you start to realise how much of what you've constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation.