Home » Quote » Emil M. Cioran » „Consciousness is nature’s nightmare.“ „Consciousness is nature’s nightmare.“ — Emil M. Cioran Tags:Nature Related quotes „If the world is eternally moving and developing matter (as the Marxists think), reflected by the developing human consciousness, what is there “static” here? The point at issue is not the immutable essence of things, or an immutable consciousness, but the correspondence between the consciousness which reflects nature and the nature which is reflected by consciousness.“ — Vladimir Lenin „Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.“ — Jean Paul Sartre „Man is above all else mind, consciousness -- that is, he is a product of history, not of nature.“ — Antonio Gramsci „Knowledge itself is 'I'. The nature of (this) knowledge is existence-consciousness-bliss.“ — Ramana Maharshi „You and I are the force for transformation in the world. We are the consciousness that will define the nature of the reality we are moving into.“ — Ram Dass „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.“ — Leon Trotsky