Quotes About Consciousness

Je préfère la vie à la mort, exister à ne pas exister, car je ne suis pas sûr d'être une fois que je n'existerai plus

Criza limbajului Ruptura între fiin?? È™i gandire.Gandirea,golit? de fiin??,se usuc?,se vestejeÈ™te,nu mai e gandire.Într-adev?r,gandirea e expresia fiinÈ›ei,coincide cu fiinÈ›a.PoÈ›i vorbi f?r? s? gandeÈ™ti.Pentru asta avem la dispoziÈ›ie cliÈ™eele,adic? automatismele.Gandirea adev?rat? nu poate fi decat vie.

Man in fact is petty: the problem of death is a human problem. A cow doesn't think about death. A cow isn't petty

Deocamdat?, nu avem decât siguranÈ›a unei autenticit??i; aceea a inautenticit??ii noastre. A fi autentic înseamn? a te tr?da fa?? de o sum? infinit? de tr?iri posibile.

Eh oui, je rêve...la vie est un rêve.

Ce matin, quand tu t'es regardé dans la glace tu ne t'es pas vu. C'est parce que je n'étais pas encore là. (IX, 59)

I learned to lose myself so effortlessly in the breathing that I sometimes had the feeling that I myself was not breathing but—strange as this may sound—being breathed.

This, then, is what counts: a lightning reaction which has no further need of conscious observation. In this respect at least the pupil makes himself independent of all conscious purpose.

Who wants to see life as it is, if they can help it?

the very fact that the mind can be deceived implies that it can be not deceived, that it can know things rightly—deep things—beauty, truth—just as they are.

They'd put the anesthesia mask on him, and the next instant he was in the recovery room. It was a blackout so complete, it made him doubt the immortality of the soul.

It had occurred to me lately that it was much more possible than I'd previously considered to be both 'self-aware' and fundamentally wrong about the nature of the self.

I have a pretty clear memory of most of that night, but even while it was happening, it was like a dream, where you do things you don't want to do but can't control your own actions.

I left the warehouse at 8.00am. I don't believe in 8.00am. It exists, though. 8.00am is incontrovertible evidence that evil dwells in the world.

we don't even know we are being negative when we're being negative.

If we are honest with ourselves, we can list almost everything that's ever happened to us - and see how we helped create it.

Just keep in mind, it was aware of us long before we were aware of it.

Neuroscientists say they can predict an action our mind has decided to take moments before our conscious mind has even decided what we think we're going to do. The function of consciousness, they argue, isn't to make decisions, but to rationalize them after the fact.

This is what scares me—the idea of becoming a monster without ever realizing it.

The colour red doesn't actually exist,' she said. 'It only exists as an idea in your head. Always remember that. You create it yourself when your imagination meets the light.

Though it's with you at every moment, it's always something of a surprise to discover that you can be at once alive and alone.

Different subjects and different affairs are arranged in my head as in a cupboard,' he once said. 'When I wish to interrupt one train of thought, I shut that drawer and open another. Do I wish to sleep? I simply close all the drawers, and there I am – asleep.

everyone who exists is mentally compromised. We all accumulate false information over time, internalize it, and are influenced by it, consciously or otherwise. We are, in part, a product of these biases, as well as all other information we gather in our lifetimes.

If you wake up feeling no pain, you know you're dead. (Russian expression)