Quotes About Consciousness

When I awake thinking of dreams I slept on, I often wonder, if the dreams ever wake up thinking of me?

Who worries for dying? If I close my eyes tonight, I will either dream, or not, or my eyes will open and I will be here again. And if none of those happen, and I do not wake? Who worries for dying?

Not all lucid dreams are useful but they all have a sense of wonder about them. If you must sleep through a third of your life, why should you sleep through your dreams, too?

Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.

Self-knowledge is the only basis of true knowledge.

Education, fundamentally, is the increase of the percentage of the conscious in relation to the unconscious. It must be a developing idea.

I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.

Education, in its highest sense, is conscious training of mind or body to act unconsciously. It is conscious formation of mental habits, not mere acquisition of information.

The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist.

Our task - and the task of all education - is to understand the present world, the world in which we live and make our choices.

Education must open the eyes and enable them to recognise the One behind the many.

The evil that we know is best.

All evils to which so many become addicted begin in the mind and in the way one thinks.

Most men are not that evolved.

We are assuming that we exist, that there is reality, and that the matter of which we are made is real.

I don't like to think of myself as just a person. I don't think I am. I think I existed before, and I think I'll exist again after I die here, so I don't exactly know what I am. I don't think there is ever going to be an answer. I just know that I'm not like you.

Actually, I think most people accept the existence of qualia.

So not only can you not imagine dying, you can't really imagine existence before you were born.

Wearing shoes, clothes, and other accessories made out of exotic skin is as cold-blooded as it gets.

I think everyone has a door in their brain that says, 'Do not exit here.' If you go past it, you'll find all the dumb thoughts in there, all the stupid things that shouldn't be said. I've probably gone there more than anyone should in a given lifetime.

I am not much of a fashionista myself, but coming into the limelight after 'Yaariyan' has made me conscious of what I wear.

We live with our archetypes, but can we live in them?

Most of the time I'm really not aware of what I am doing. I'm just so locked into the moment.

Losers don't always know that they are losers.