Quotes About Consciousness

You think you have a memory; but it has you! Later

and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you! Later, I would remember everything.

O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts!

I thought that the vibrissae about my nostrils detected something unique while I was outside.

Ignatius spent the day in his room napping fitfully and attacking his rubber glove during his frequent, anxious moments of consciousness.

Sentivo che non ero, non ero mai stato e non sarei mai stato una parte vivente di questo mondo straordinariamente solido e profondamente significativo che mi circonda.

The more real you get the more unreal the world gets.

paranoia is just a heightened sense of awareness

Lako je živjeti zatvorenih o?iju, ne shva?aju?i ono što vidiš...

That aspect of reality of most central concern and importance to human beings is, of course, human beings. And in order to survive and succeed in his fullest capacity as a human being, man must be able to identify his own nature (including his means of knowledge) as well as the nature of the world (or universe) in which he acts.

It is impossible to test accurately how long a severed head remains conscious, if at all. The best estimate is between five and thirteen seconds.

I cannot subscribe to this modern idea that we should feel guilty about our role on earth

Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.

Yet of this massive flow of information no more than about 40 bits per second actually reaches consciousness. We are, in other words, conscious of only a trivial slice of all the information coming into the brain for processing.

Consciousness, these experiments suggested, is merely a bystander observing a decision already taken, almost like watching ourselves on video.

The mind is a universe and can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

The mind is its own place, and in itself / Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. / What matter where, if I be still the same...

Enlightenment, don't know what it is. It's up to you, the way you think.

People tell me it's a sin, to know and feel too much within.

Ignorance is the greatest slave master in the universe.

I awoke, only to see that the rest of the world is still asleep.

We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.

We are dangerous when we are not conscious of our responsibility for how we behave, think, and feel.

Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.