Quotes About Consciousness

Number is therefore the most primitive instrument of bringing an unconscious awareness of order into consciousness.

The brain has not explained the mind fully.

One day we shall certainly 'reduce' thought experimentally to molecular and chemical motions in the brain; but does that exhaust the essence of thought?

Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance

With thought comprising a non-computational element, computers can never do what we human beings can.

I believe that the evidence for telepathy is overwhelming and that it is a part of reality that is above science. Science allows us to glimpse [only] fragments of reality.

Neurophysiologists will not likely find what they are looking for, for that which they are looking for is that which is looking.

There is no future. There is only now, a continuous now. We have become so wrapped up in the past and the future that we don't see the continuous now. There is no future. It is an idea that you have.

A reality completely independent of the spirit that conceives it, sees it, or feels it, is an impossibility. A world so external as that, even if it existed, would be forever inaccessible to us.

Things of which there is sight, hearing, apprehension, these I prefer.

Science cannot destroy the consciousness of freedom, without which there is no morality and no art, but it can refute it.

In the post-individualistic era, science and spirituality will become allies, and human beings will realize a vast potentiality now only dimly felt.

If we want to find God, we have to look within, into the realm of deep mind-a realm that science has yet to explore.

This is the most exciting part of being human. It is using our brains in the highest way. Otherwise we are just healthy animals

Science fiction is very well suited to asking philosophical questions; questions about the nature of reality, what it means to be human, how do we know the things that we think we know.

None of us knows anything, not even whether we know or do not know, nor do we know whether not knowing and knowing exist, nor in general whether there is anything or not.

I am the thought you are now thinking.

Without consciousness the mind-body problem would be much less interesting. With consciousness it seems hopeless.

An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.

The more of us that feel the universe, the better off we will be in this world.

As science went further and further into the external world, they ended up inside the atom where to their surprise they saw consciousness staring them in the face!

Modern science has its value in terms of utility, but it cannot open up existence to human experience.

Science is the special province of the ego. And magic and art are the special province of something else. I could name it, but I won't. It prefers to be unnamed

There is no deterioration and there is no creation. There are projections, moments of existence. Each moment is perfect.