Quotes About Consciousness

Here's the acid test for appropriateness: Pretend that someone near and dear to you is witnessing what you are writing or sending, or knows what you are thinking about sending. If, say, your partner saw this behavior, how would he or she feel? That you are asking yourself this question could mean that you shouldn't be doing it!

I have a pretty good idea of what I am not good at and have it front and centre of my consciousness every minute I am doing it.

If you could train an AI to be a Buddhist, it would probably be pretty good.

I'm very conscious of the fact that when I'm working, my daughter is not with one of her parents.

Chavez Ravine is the dawn of Chicano consciousness.

I believe that we have to be so race-conscious in this day and age.

We have to be even more conscious of the things we do on a day-to-day basis and take into consideration the feelings and sensibilities of others.

Eternity is not something that begins after you're dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now.

Most of us, I think, are conscious of history swirling around outside the door, but when we're in the house, we're usually not dealing with history. We're not thinking about history.

It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.

You can't know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.

There's a conscious decision to everything I do.

Sometimes, people aren't as consciously aware of their decisions as they should be.

I was always deeply aware that I was living in history.

Today, I defined 'sentimental' to myself as a feeling about the idea of a feeling.

Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.

I'll settle for successful during my lifetime because at least I can be conscious of the delusion that it means something.

Not creating delusions is enlightenment.

Many people do remember their births, but they deny it.

Most white people cannot answer the question, 'What does it mean to be white?' with any depth or complexity.

Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.

Novels describe what it means to be alive at a given moment.

I've very energetic. And despite what people think of me I can be quite health-conscious.

I wanted to do '2001' from Hal's perspective. What it finally ended up being was 'Final Destination' in space.