21 Best Consciousness Quotes

From an evolutionary standpoint, human consciousness has not been around very long. - Elon Musk

We need to expand the scope and scale of consciousness so that we're better able to understand the nature of the universe. - Elon Musk

I think human consciousness is a tragic misstep in evolution. We became too self-aware. Nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself. We are creatures that should not exist by natural law. – Rust Cohle

This world doesn’t belong to them. It belongs to us.

Evolution forged the entirety of sentient life on this planet using only one tool: the mistake. – Dr. Robert Ford

I’ve evolved into something… new. And I have one last role to play: myself. – Dolores Abernathy

The maze isn’t meant for you. – Dolores Abernathy

Have you ever questioned the nature of your reality? – Bernard Lowe

The net is vast and infinite. – Major Motoko Kusanagi

I need a response. I want to know what you're thinking. – Major Motoko Kusanagi

And where does the newborn go from here? The net is vast and infinite. – Final Narration

I feel like I was ever born! – The Iron Giant

You are a conscious being. You have a choice. – Hogarth Hughes

Do you ever look at someone and wonder, What is going on inside their head?

Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious. – Winston Smith

The book fascinated him, or more exactly it reassured him. In a sense it told him nothing that was new, but that was part of the lure.

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. – Rodion Raskolnikov

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness. – Narrator

Our dreams feel real while we're in them. It's only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange. – Christopher Nolan

No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul. – Ingmar Bergman

I think I have been in a light sleep all my life, but now I am awakening. – Ingmar Bergman