Quotes About Consciousness

Memory is the irruption of other things in us.

There is not the whole of being on one side, the whole of nothingness on the other, but no more are we specialized, conditioned nothingness. Consciousness is not the flux of lived experiences, but consciousness of lacks, of open situations.

Sedimentation is: trace of the forgotten and thereby a call to thought which depends upon itself and goes farther...It is the experience of a resumption which is not totalization, and which precisely for that reason is able to open another development of knowledge.

Consciousness of something is always consciousness of a difference between terms that are not given positively.

What is required by the facts which Freud describes under the name of repression, complex, regression or resistance is only the possibility of a fragmented life of consciousness which does not possess a unique significance at all times.

The derangement of the senses is to break through the partitions between them in order to regain their indivision--And through this, a thought not mine but theirs...Things speak through me.

I never rejoin the other's lived experience. It is in the world that we rejoin one another.

If objects must never show me more than one of their sides, then this is because I myself am in a certain place from which I can see them, but which I cannot see.

Before being reason, humanity is another corporeity.

Perceived causality is evidently not that of the scientist (i.e. the relation of a function to certain variables), but rather a productive and quasi-magical causality.

In principle, the logician is only familiar with thetic consciousness.

The phenomenal layer is, literally, pre-logical and will always remain so.

By returning to phenomena, we find, as a fundamental layer, a whole already pregnant with an irreducible sense.

Every perception is the perception of something solely by way of being at the same time the relative imperception of a horizon or background which it implies but does not thematize. Perceptual consciousness is therefore indirect or even inverted in relation to an ideal of adequation which it presumes but never encounters directly.

The sensible order is being at a distance--the fulgurating attestation here and now to an inexhaustible richness.

The incompleteness of the reduction is not an obstacle to the reduction, it is the reduction itself, the rediscovery of vertical being.

Perception is already expression.

There are eyes at the tips of my fingers.

The child's consciousness is different from the adult's both in content and organization. Children are not, as previously thought, 'miniature adults.' Thus, contrary to the negative account, the child's consciousness is not identical to the adult's in everything except for its incompleteness and imperfection. The child possess another kind of equilibrium than the adult kind; therefore, we must treat the child's consciousness as a positive phenomenon.

Remember that you cannot work on yourself unless you begin to wonder why you say what you say and do what you do and behave as you behave and feel what you feel and think what you think. To take yourself for granted, to imagine you are always right, to ascribe to yourself all that you do ascribe to yourself—all that form of sheer imagination will prevent you from seeing what esotericism means, what the Gospels mean, and what you mean.

Man must realize his mechanicalness before he can change... Work is a question of increasing one's consciousness, not imitating virtues like monkeys.

No existo porque pienso ni pienso porque existo. Pensar es cierto, existir es un mito. Yo no existo, vivir –lo que se dice vivir– sólo los que no piensan. Los que se ponen a pensar no viven." --Dos Crímenes Barrocos, Max Aub, Crímenes Ejemplares--

The true conjurer finds his guerdon in the consciousness of work done perfectly and for its own sake.

There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure.