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Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human.

Every animal is related to its own constitution and the consciousness of it.

When brains get sufficiently big, presumably, as human brains have, consciousness seems to emerge.

Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness. Only man seems to be endowed with this faculty; he alone develops disinterested intelligence, intelligence that is not primarily concerned with his own safety and well-being but that looks abroad upon things.

No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.

You don't know what mental telepathy exists from the human to the animal.

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

Consciousness, rather than being something that we have, is something we participate in.

We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.

Our intellect, our awareness, and our consciousness is the most powerful form of life on this planet. It's totally worthwhile. If our animal instincts stopped, we would die. We don't think about it, but if your consciousness were responsible for all of your bodily functions, you would die.