Quotes About Consciousness

Nothing that comes and goes is you. 'I am bored.' Who knows this? 'I am angry, sad, afraid.' Who knows this? You are the knowing, not the condition that is known.

Any gastronome who is not an environmentalist is stupid, and any environmentalist who is not a gastronome is sad.

I can't wait for the day I learn to live in the now!

When this sad war is over we will all return to our homes, and feel that we can ask no higher honor than the proud consciousness that we belonged to the Army of the Potomac.

The Behaviorist cannot find consciousness in the test-tube of his science.

A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.

All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force... We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.

The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it Intuition or what you will, the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why.

Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science.

What I thought was unreal now, for me, seems in some ways to be more real than what I think to be real, which seems now to be unreal

Consciousness ... is the phenomenon whereby the universe's very existence is made known.

Although each of us obviously inhabits a separate physical body, the laboratory data from a hundred years of parapsychology research strongly indicate that there is no separation in consciousness.

What quantum physics teaches us is that everything we thought was physical is not physical.

The world is a construct of our sensations, perceptions, memories. It is convenient to regard it as existing objectively on its own. But it certainly does not become manifest by its mere existence.

Art is, like magic, the science of manipulating symbols, words or images to achieve changes in consciousness

Science does not deal with subjective experience... Well that's too bad because that is all any of us ever have.

...separation of the observer from the phenomenon to be observed is no longer possible.

Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.

Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else.

No phenomenon is a real phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon.

We ourselves are the entities to be analyzed.

Spirituality as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have.

Consciousness poses the most baffling problems in the science of the mind. There is nothing that we know more intimately than conscious experience, but there is nothing that is harder to explain.

Free will is the sensation of making a choice. The sensation is real, but the choice seems illusory. Laws of physics determine the future.