Quotes About Consciousness

Let whoever can do so deceive me, he will never bring it about that I am nothing, so long as I continue to think I am something.

If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

I think I am, therefore, I am... I think.

Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.

Turn away from your animal kind, try to leave your body, just to live in your mind.

Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.

Perception is not something that happens to us, or in us. It is something we do.

The basic assumption of tantra is that God not only exists in the superconscious, God also exists in the lowest forms of existence.

According to this philosophy, each man consists of three parts - the body, the internal organ or the mind, and behind that, what is called the Atman, the Self.

To be is to be perceived

Materialism is the philosophy of the subject who forgets to take account of himself.

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.

Remembering is the opposite of being here now; it's being there now.

You asked me how to get out of the finite dimensions when I feel like it. I certainly don't use logic when I do it. Logic's the first thing you have to get rid of.

I keep living this day like the next will never come.

There's nothing in the future and there's nothing in the past. There is only this one moment, and you've got to make it last.

A man is a god in ruins.

I live by the philosophy that beauty starts from within, and I make a conscious effort to fill my body with nutrients through the food I eat.

Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.

Violence begins with the fork.

Every day, I read books on philosophy and science fiction and human consciousness.

It was a great thing to be a human being. It was something tremendous. Suddenly I'm conscious of a million sensations buzzing in me like bees in a hive. Gentlemen, it was a great thing.

You can't change the mind with the mind alone, or we'd all be enlightened

Death is nothing to us: for that which is dissolved is without sensation; and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us.