Quotes About Consciousness

It is important to remember that a thought is harmless unless we believe them and act on them. As the subject, since thoughts are an object of your awareness, you have the power to challenge every thought. You can decide if you want to make that thought real.

What's the point of art, of any art, if it doesn't let us see with a little bit of objectivity where we are?

The self has the characteristic that it is an object to itself, and that characteristic distinguishes it from other objects and from the body.

The human brain is probably one of the most complex single objects on the face of the earth; I think it is, quite honestly.

Even by common wisdom, there seem to be both people and objects in my dream that are outside myself, but clearly they were created in myself and are part of me, they are mental constructs in my own brain.

The 'I think' which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the 'I breathe' which actually does accompany them.

We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.

Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion.

If we ignore our death, we end up just going around completely oblivious to why we do the things we do!

Our minds are mysterious; our conscious brain is like a ship on a sea that is obscure to us.

You will do things in private and sing in private and make choices in private that you wouldn't make if you were observed.

Who will observe the observers?

How we come to be, and how we are what we are, is beyond any understanding. I have been obsessed by this, trying to understand the very nature of my existence.

In the Trump era, it's way more obvious extreme racism exists. But there are still a lot of people who think, 'We don't have a racist bone in our bodies.' We have to face the racism in ourselves.

That's the thing about great artists: They find the thing that's most obvious to themselves, what's most conscious and natural, and they put it out there and the audience comes.

If we think about the obvious long enough, it dissolves.

Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the control of the conscious mind.

If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice; you are listening to your own desires.

Obviously the idea of being human is a very human idea.

Occasionally, I have to think like myself to remember where I put something.

I don't like alcohol, but I still like to mess around with other stuff occasionally. I think it's important I take mushrooms and acid. They're certainly not addictive, so I can't rule that out.

I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist.

All there is to thinking, he said, is seeing something noticeable which makes you see something you weren't noticing which makes you see something that isn't even visible.

Consciousness, that blunt tool, bucks in the general direction of the truth. Instinct plucks the feather.