Quotes About Consciousness

What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capability and god-like reason to fust in us unused.

No, Cassius; for the eye sees not itself, But by reflection, by some other things.

To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come?

For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,Must give us pause

Noi siamo della stessa materia Di cui son fatti i sogni E la nostra piccola vita È circondata da un sonno.

Am I in earth, in heaven, or in hell? Sleeping or waking, mad or well-advised? Known unto these, and to myself disguised? I'll say as they say, and persever so, And in this mist at all adventures go.

Were such things here as we do speak about? Or have we eaten on the insane root That takes the reason prisoner?

Is it possible he should know what he is, and be that he is?

Of all knowledge, the wise and good seek mostly to know themselves.

Shake off this downy sleep, death's counterfeit, And look on death itself!

A dream itself is but a shadow.

He hath always but slightly, known himself...King Lear

Pero, ¿cómo es que eso aún vive en tu mente? ¿Qué más ves en el oscuro fondo y abismo del tiempo? (Próspero)

Sophie slept, understanding with a dreamer's fierce clarity that she was doomed.

A human being," Einstein once wrote, "is part of the whole called by us 'Universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness . . .

He who lives not in time, but in the present, is happy. —LUDWIG VON WITTGENSTEIN

There is much truth in the remark that we see only that which we look for, and to look energetically we must consciously look for something.

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.

I think seeing happens partly through the eyes, but not entirely.

direct, so bright and clear of eye and manner, that he found it hard to believe she was any man's game. But even if she were, the Biblical analogy that had occurred to him in the mine that day still held good. But how to bring her to repentance? How make a person aware of sin when their unawareness was so complete? It

He felt righteous and unashamed. He decided to go to bed sober.

Someone—a Latin poet—had defined eternity as no more than this: to hold and possess the whole fullness of life in one moment, there and then, past and present and to come.

My conclusion on Freewill and predestination- they are identical.

En el tercer planeta del sol la conciencia limpia y tranquila es síntoma primordial de animalidad.