Quotes About Consciousness

Kendimizi sadece sabit kimlikli nesneler olarak görürsek Olmay? b?rak?r?z. Ve kendimizi nesneler olarak görmenin yollar?ndan biri toplumsal rollerle özde?le?mektir. Bu kimliklenmeye Sartre mauvaise foi, yani kötü inanç der.

Everyone holds a luminous jewel, all embrace a precious gem; if you do not turn your attention around and look within, you will wander from home with a hidden treasure. Have you not heard it said, "In the ear it is like the great and small sounds in an empty valley, none not complete; in the eye it is like myriad images under a thousand suns, none able to avoid casting shadows"? If you seek it outside of sense experience, you will hinder the living meaning of Zen.

What would it be like if you lived each day, each breath, as a work of art in progress Imagine that you are a Masterpiece unfolding, every second of every day, a work of art taking form with every breath.

Profound as its intellectual and artistic interactions had been, the Chicago Black Renaissance never dented the city's consciousness the way the Harlem Renaissance created a mythic Black New York.

I'm always conscious of what I'm writing, conscious of what the actor may ask me. I have a defense for nearly every line in the song.

Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.

The impact of a conscious artist is necessary, and it ripples through the world.

Being frugal, conscious of making money, is not a negative thing. That sensibility of creating value and finding value and reinvesting in those customers is what separates great restaurants from the average ones.

Freedom can be killed by neglect as well as by direct attack.

Sensation is not the conduction of a quality or state of external bodies to consciousness, but the conduction of a quality or state of our nerves to consciousness, excited by an external cause.

One very early influence was reading about John Cage's experience in an anechoic room where the only sound you are left with is the high-pitched drone of your nervous system.

The genetic you and the neural you aren't alternatives to the conscious you. They are its foundations.

We need to habituate better thinking to appreciate more of your day because that has a neurological correlate.

I never forget, remember that. Not an action, not a name, not a face.

New Yorkers have a delightfully narcissistic habit of assuming that if they're not conscious of a scene, it doesn't exist.

I am one year older than Nigeria at 51. In a human life, 51 might be old. But it is very young for a nation. By that, I mean a Nigeria conscious of itself as a nation.

It's not clear whether the brain actually is designed to have nightmares or whether this is actually the process going awry.

Going back to the films I made in the nineties, they might not have been the most thought-provoking movies, but there was always this conscious thing of knowing that it was fourteen-year-old surfers who were really into it, and so I've wanted to be responsible with that.

Your mind is nirvana.

There's no excuse for fur in this day and age.

But I think your biggest crime as a citizen of society or America or the world is to be ignorant by choice. There's no excuse for that. I feel, when the information is at my fingertips, I could never choose to be ignorant.

I have no idea how things work in the life beyond what we know with our senses.

Los momentos clave, combinados con decisiones y acciones conscientes, y con una buena dosis de esperanza, pueden arrastrarte a un futuro que parece predestinado.

Will the time ever come when I am not so completely dependent on thoughts I first had in childhood to furnish the feedstock for my comparisons and analogies and sense of the parallel rhythms of microhistory? Will I reach a point where there will be a good chance, I mean a more than fifty-fifty chance, that any random idea popping back into the foreground of my consciousness will be an idea that first came to me when I was an adult, rather than one I had repeatedly as a child?