Quotes About Consciousness

I always knew how privileged I was to think for a living.

Going around not fully believing that you're going to die is really problematic because it affects how you think about the future of the planet, about the future of your own life, about the decisions you're making.

My body image as I grew up was very difficult... I was so conscious of being fat. But one thing I was aware of as being problematic for 12, 14 years was overeating and then purging.

Our specious present as such is very short. We do, however, experience passing events; part of the process of the passage of events is directly there in our experience, including some of the past and some of the future.

Each of my novels has come from a different place, and the processes are not always entirely conscious. I have lived off and on in America for a number of years and so have accumulated observations, found things interesting, been moved to tell stories about them.

What do we mean by 'crazy?' What do we mean by 'mad?' At what point is a person just different and at what point can we call it a disease and say that they are not responsible for their actions? Or are we all slaves to the chemical processes that go on in our brains?

Bodies do not produce sensations, but complexes of elements (complexes of sensations) make up bodies.

Some fast fashion companies do amazing environmentally friendly capsule collections, but wouldn't it be great if one of these companies just turned around and said everything they produced was?

I think that if everyone knew how meat and dairy was being produced, they wouldn't eat it.

It's the inner that produces the outer.

Some people say they use images to help them remember intricacies. Others say they just remember. If they are able to form an image of the face, it is because they remember how it was: it is not that an image guides memory, but that memory produces an image, or the sense of imaging. We have no agreed way to talk clearly about such things.

It's so difficult to be conscious of a development of a style. You find yourself writing in a certain style, and the analysis of how you came to it can only ever be applied retroactively. You're never conscious of why you're producing it.

If you're listening consciously, you can take control of the sound around you. It's good for your health and for your productivity. If we all do that, we move to a state that I like to think will be sound living in the world.

We know that we're not supposed to be racially biased, and we don't want to think of ourselves as racially biased, so we tell ourselves a different story.

All the different ways we know the world all come from the brain, and they all depend on each other to make sense.

I think that the consciousness of passion makes you act very differently.

I don't digest things with my mind.

When you die, I think you re-live your life in a different dimension, in a different world but I don't believe in aliens.

I try to help people become the best possible editors of their own work, to help them become conscious of the things they do well, of the things they need to look at again, of the wells of material they have not even begun to dip their buckets into.

Sometimes it's hard for me to express my emotions on a conscious level, to directly say my emotions.

I feel most people are so disconnected from their food - I try to not be one of those people.

I discover in my experiential space evidence for the wrongness of solipsism, and this evidence is called beauty.

If you believe that discrimination exists, it will.

Consciousness is a disease.