Quotes About Consciousness

What if memories were just memories, without any consolatory or persecutory power? Would they exist at all, or was it always emotional pressure that summoned images from what was potentially all of experience so far?

If we can't control our conscious responses, what chance do we have against the influences we haven't recognized?

The mess that's emerging...at least reflects the truth of my experience, the fact that every contemplation is interrupted, and that every interruption becomes further object of contemplation, and that this rhythm of delusion and revelation feels as if it's essential to the nature of consciousness considering itself.

forced to observe the fringes of unconsciousness and make darkness visible;

There was definitely an argument for getting some sleep; namely, that when he woke up the impact of the drugs would be stronger.

You learned in school that you have pencils and paper only because the trees gave themselves in unconditional sacrifice.

I might not be human. I might be nothing more than a set of algorithms, running on a spacesuit with a corpse inside it. But I'm not a monster.

we have to keep him in a state of enlightened deception.

The human mind is generative, creative, proactive, and reflective -- not just reactive.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

With rebellion, awareness is born.

Do not wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.

Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.

Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It happens every day.

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.

To live is in itself a value judgment. To breathe is to judge.

Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.

An intellectual is a person whose mind watches itself.

What do you see when you look and what do you hear when you read?

Reality i merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Reality is merely an illusion, although a very persistent one