Quotes About Consciousness

WRITER: But tell me before you go. What was the worst thing about being down here? AGNES: Just existing. Knowing my sight was blurred by my eyes, my hearing dulled by my ears, and my bright thought trapped in the grey maze of a brain. Have you seen a brain?

To perceive emptiness is to perceive raw sensory data without doing what we're naturally inclined to do: build a theory about what is at the heart of the data and then encapsulate that theory in a sense of essence.

Entonces, la idea es que todo lo significativo que vemos en el mundo es algo que nosotros sobreimponemos en él?». «Exactamente»

what we call the "self" is in such constant causal interaction with its environment, is so pervasively influenced by the world out there

So if the conscious mind isn't in control, what is in control?

Still, at a minimum it seems fair to say that the role of our conscious selves in guiding behavior is not nearly as big as was long thought. And the reason this role was exaggerated is that the conscious mind feels so powerful; in other words, the conscious mind is naturally deluded about its own nature.

El tiempo transcurría con lentitud, y mi conciencia descentrada de extrañeza y fatiga recogía en el espacio el silencioso dolor de la especie.

No hacia otra cosa que examinarse, que analizar lo que en el ocurría, como si la suma de detalles pudieran darle la certidumbre de que vivía.

Today I realized that what I wrote yesterday I really wrote today: everything from December 31 I wrote on January 1, i.e. today, and what I wrote on December 30 I wrote on the 31st, i.e. yesterday. What I write today I'm really writing tomorrow, which for me will be today and yesterday, and also, in some sense, tomorrow: an invisible day. But enough of that.

He turned his face into the stream of water and closed his eyes. I'm not as sad as I'd have thought, he told himself. This is all unreal, he said to himself.

I thought you were dying, said Amalfitano. "No, I was dreaming," said Castillo.

E incluso cabía una opción peor: que Cesárea hubiera torcido la realidad conscientemente.

No podía creer que fuera de noche todavía, que esa incandescencia fuera la noche. Daba lo mismo cerrar los ojos o mantenerlos abiertos.

Hoe dan ook, er gebeurt iets met de tijd. Ik weet dat er iets met de tijd gebeurt en niet met de ruimte.

but inside she could feel herself starting to scream, or rather, she could feel, and see, the diving line between not-screaming and screaming. It was like opening your eyes in a cave bigger than the earth

With every day that passes I am more convinced that the act of writing is a concious act of humility.

That something merely happens is pointless. But that something happens and a watching eye gathers it into itself is everything.

One operates on the mind with the mind. What else is there, after all?

If the heart stops for more than two minutes, you have massive brain death. There are only two minutes between our conscious world and zero. That's how fragile our consciousness is.

The illness, and the untimely death of my brothers, has made me conscious of the fact that - rather than just think about it - it's crucial that you do today what you want to do.

All of life, I wanted to tell him, is in our minds. Where else does it take place, where else do we add up what it means to us and subtract what we have lost? An event is just an event until some person attaches meaning to it.

If I enter the room as you are fastening your shoe, I can say, "There will be a lovely moon tonight," and then you will call it to mind. But before I call it forth for you, you have forgotten the moon. One can swiftly understand that for most moments of our lives, we have forgotten almost all of the world around us, except for what currently claims our interest.

refusing to think about a thing only brings it more strongly to mind.

Men deny animals have feelings and thoughts for one basic reason: so they won't feel guilty about what they do to them.