Quotes About Consciousness

Resistance to revelation, resistance to becoming conscious of all that dwells within us - high and low, light and dark - is the anti-change factor. It is also the mainspring of all our psychological fears.

In Psychology we deal with minds and their processes, and leave out of account as far as possible the objects that we get to know by means of them.

The psychology of a complex mind must differ almost as much from that of a simple, mechanized mind as its psychology would from ours; because something that must underlie and perhaps be even greater than sex is involved.

I don't doubt that the explanation for consciousness will arise from the mercilessly scientific account of psychology and neuroscience, but, still, isn't it neat that the universe is such that it gave rise to conscious beings like you and me?

When I start to get that few pounds, which I try to monitor, then I just pull back. So it's really just being conscious.

There are people who try to justify eating fish by saying they have no feelings. Well, you watch a fish gasping for breath as it's pulled out of the water, and then try and tell me it has no feelings!

I say 'as it were' or 'so to speak' too often because puns and double entendres keep insinuating themselves into my consciousness as I'm talking.

I see people as they really are from a pure point of view.

To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.

There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.

The pure natural scientist is liable to forget that minds exist, and that if it were not for them he could neither know nor act on physical objects.

I don't believe that pure evil exists, personally.

I think the idea that life ends when we physically die is as painful as the idea in Cromwell's time that there's some awful purgatory, and you have to give money to the Catholic church to get your loved ones out. I certainly have experienced a lot of evidence that there's a consciousness that isn't physical.

And really the purpose of art - for me, fiction - is to alert, to indicate to stop, to say: Make certain that when you rush through you will not miss the moment which you might have had, or might still have.

For our purposes as human beings, the mind is the center of everything.

Spiritual consciousness is, on the whole, very adventurous and all about pursuing our deepest, most fulfilling dreams.

The truly humble feel the ground beneath their feet every day and do not only become aware of it when held aloft or pushed down to their knees.

Pushing ahead with a self-emancipatory agenda is critical, but we must do so fully conscious of this broader context of our development efforts.

Listening to something without being present is different from being there in the flesh.

I personally have stopped flying. I have stopped eating meat and dairy.

I could spend my life focusing on getting rid of straws in our society.

As I started eating more natural foods and thinking about what I was putting into my body, I became more interested in what I was putting on it, too.

I've got to be aware of what's going on. I can't drink too much or make a fool of myself.

Going meatless reduces our carbon footprint and helps us lead the way towards climate change.