Quotes About Consciousness

I understand that your brain is large and perpetually at war with itself

Yu can't live if yu dead, neither. Yu probly too smart to get dat.

A memory can be banished, even indefinitely, deported from consciousness by the relentless everydayness of running a successful magazine, mothering a son, and burying a husband. A human being, though, is a different thing entirely.

There isn't an entity in the universe that does not know about love.

What I hope we can learn is to be aware of how our beliefs color what we see." I wanted to tell Brittain that Lemry was trying

Once a thing is known,it can't be UNknown.

The irony is that while sleep sometimes brings nightmares, it's the reality of my waking hours that can cause me the greater fear.

Do not dwell on the past, do not think about the future. Live in the present as if it was your last.

and presence

This is all a dream and we're both asleep right now.

Cuando vives con tanta intensidad en la cabeza, al final no hay diferencia entre lo que imaginas y lo que ocurre de veras.

Nosotros tenemos que darnos cuenta de que a nosotros tampoco.

What you see with the eyes of faith is more real than what you see with your optical eyes.

as author and scientist Dr. Jonathan Balcombe wrote in his 2010 book Second Nature, animals' thoughts and feelings are far more complex than humans previously imagined. "Animals are conscious beings with feelings," Balcombe noted, "yet our treatment of them remains medieval.

I mean, if all we are is bundles of energy... what is a 'hug' anyway?... and how can we ever really touch each other?

Although Walter was the first to admit that his own memory wasn't the best—that he forgot people's names all the time even when he'd been introduced more than once—he

Was für eine vorzügliche Einrichtung, daß die Gedanken nicht als sichtbare Schrift über unsre Stirnen laufen! Leicht würde jedes Beisammensein, selbst ein harmloses wie dieses, zum Mördertreffen. Oder wir lernten es, uns über uns selbst zu erheben, ohne Haß in die Zerrspiegel zu blicken, welche die andern uns sind. Und ohne Trieb, die Spiegel zu zerschlagen. Dazu aber, sie weiß es ja, sind wir nicht gemacht.

Indem wir die Gegenwart gewahr werden, ist sie schon vorüber, das Bewußtsein des Genusses liegt immer in der Erinnerung.

Life becomes the way it is lived; and man may live the way he wants to live when he learns to think what he wants to think.

Every mental process, or every mental action, that takes place in our wide-awake consciousness will, if it has depth of feeling or intensity, enter the unconscious field, and after it has developed itself according to the line of its original nature, will return to the conscious side of the mind.

You will look young when you feel young, but to simply feel that you are young will not always cause you to feel young. The real feeling of youth comes when we actually think in the consciousness of youth and give the realization of the now to every thought.

the law is this: That everything entering subjective consciousness will impress itself there and become a pattern for the creative energies of the mind. These energies will proceed to create thoughts and conditions just like the impression formed, which will carry their own conditions to every part of the human system.

Whenever you appreciate a certain thing you become conscious of its real quality, and whenever you become conscious of the quality of anything, you begin to develop that quality in yourself. When we appreciate the worth of a person, we tend to impress the idea of that worth in our own minds, and thereby cause the same effect to be produced, in a measure, in ourselves.

We enjoy the unique faculty of being able to act against natural selection. The problem is that, in order to do this, we must actively oppose some of our key genetic traits, surmount our own nature.