Quotes About Consciousness

What is a sheep only millions of little bits of sheepness whirling around and doing intricate convolutions inside the sheep? What else is it but that?

Who had uttered these words? They had not frightened me. They were clearly audible to me yet I knew the did not ring out across the air like the chilling cough of the old man in the chair, They came from deep inside me, from my soul. Never before had I believed or suspected that I had a soul but just then I knew I had.

He had the feeling that everything he saw was a broken-off piece of some giant blank thing that he had forgotten had happened to him.

How would he know if time was going backwards or forwards or if he was going with it?

If a writer is any good, what he makes will have its source in a realm much larger than that which his conscious mind can encompass and will always be a greater surprise to him than it can ever be to his reader.

I've always had issues with factory farming. That was always something that bothered me.

We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature.

But I have been interested in dreams, really since I was a kid. I have always been fascinated by the idea that your mind, when you are asleep, can create a world in a dream and you are perceiving it as though it really existed.

However fascinating you may think you are, there is a limit to what you can know about yourself.

I never touch fast food.

I don't go to fast food restaurants anymore. That's out.

I don't know how consciously anyone looks for a father figure.

If we're not careful, we become that which we most fear.

Fears and lies intensify consciousness.

We want kids to value real food and understanding that it isn't just about feeding people but about nourishing the body, the community and the planet.

We feel and know that we are eternal.

If there is something I am arguing, it is a critique of science. Science has consistently denied the existence of consciousness other than human. Only in the last 20 years do we have acknowledgement of animal feeling or culture or experience.

I know where my body's at, know how it feels, you know.

We're one of the only animals in the world that don't really think of ourselves as animals, but we are animals, and we must respect our fellow animals.

I am very aware of being black and female because that's what I am.

I've been a feminist all my life, or at least as long as I've been conscious of being a woman.

I think that all women, unless they are absolutely asleep, must be feminists up to a point.

There are very few things in the world that make me feel a feeling, really.

It's not always clear whether the filmmaker intends our alienation or is even aware of it.