Quotes About Consciousness

Well, I didn't grow up with that word 'retirement' as part of my consciousness. I didn't grow up with professionals that retired. I thought retiring was when you are tired and go to bed.

I'm able to take myself out of the celebrity bubble and the profile that I'm at, and look at what black people are going through around the country.

It seems to me that we are profoundly ignorant of ourselves.

We appear to be programmed with the idea that there are 'things' outside of our self, and some are conscious, and some are not.

In philosophy, they talk a lot about humans being actual organic machines, and the idea of free will is something that we've made up. We actually don't have free will. We're acting according to our programming as organic mechanisms.

I found in my experiences that it's not that men are consciously discriminating against promoting women, but I do believe as people we have self-images about what's good.

Up to this day, there has been no proof of the existence of any intelligence other than the human.

The new formula in physics describes humans as paradoxical beings who have two complementary aspects: They can show properties of Newtonian objects and also infinite fields of consciousness.

Consciousness, for me, is a manifestation of complexity in biology. It's an emergent property.

I got into animals by drawing hair follicles. I liked drawing hair, and from that I got into feathers and fur, then into images of animals. The patterning is the same, but the proportions of the body change from one animal to the next. A lot of it is just geometry and consciousness.

There's a half-conscious state you enter when you're actually generating prose, and you are simply a better writer in that place. In fact it's the only place where you even are a writer.

The more consciously democratic Americans became, however, the less they were satisfied with a conception of the Promised Land, which went no farther than a pervasive economic prosperity guaranteed by free institutions.

I have four things to be concerned about: prostate cancer, pancreatic cancer, melanoma and breast cancer. The rest of my life I have to be very much aware and conscious and do all of the early detection.

When the machine of a human being is turned on, it seems to produce a protagonist, just as a television produces an image.

You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can't care anyway.

We have the notion that we exist but we have no way to prove it. 'I am' is the closest foundation we can get.

Science has proved that everything is energy, and now they have dark energy, dark matter. They don't call it all-embracing consciousness; they call it dark because they can't measure it. You know, paint it black.

Most people are so occupied by the external world that they don't realize that there is a very rich world within themselves. In this stage, we relax, let go, and learn to appreciate that we have an internal universe.

When you bring consciousness to anything, things begin to shift.

I have left behind illusion,' I said to myself. 'Henceforth I live in a world of three dimensions - with the aid of my five senses.' I have since learned that there is no such world, but then, as the car turned out of sight of the house, I thought it took no finding, but lay all about me at the end of the avenue.

Sometimes," said Julia, "I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.

Henceforth I live in a world of three dimensions—with the aid of my five senses." I have since learned that there is no such world

But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy ambition, of hope more sordid than despair, of incessant passage up or down…. There was kindliness about intoxication – there was the indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings

We are not in the world, we become with the world; we become by contemplating it. Everything is vision, becoming. We become universes.