Quotes About Consciousness

Some people give themselves over to their most evil desires, and those people becomes evil. But in general, it's reductive to think of evil as something foreign and separate from the rest of us. Evil is part of everyone. We all have the capacity to commit evil acts.

I'm interested in a lot of different things, but first and foremost I'm into the idea of human consciousness, and Angels & Airwaves is a byproduct of that.

I believe that you're here on Earth for a short time, and while you're here, you shouldn't forget it.

The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.

For a few years, I went down a path where I forgot to be in the moment and enjoy the moment.

There have been times when I've shaved twice in the same morning because I've forgotten I've shaved already.

There is an idea, first of all, of vision fully formed with the eyes closed. Of course the vision we have in a lucid dream often has greater lucidity and clarity than vision with the eyes open.

My goal is to be able to fill out one of those forms that asks 'Who are you?' and be able to just put 'Human being,' you know?

Your brain forms a story and, if you're lucky, there's a line where the story takes over the brain. You don't even know what you have.

If you are conscious and really want change in this world, and you don't vote, then what was all the fighting for? All the things our parents and our parents' parents fought for?

The thing is to appreciate the fragile wonder of it all, down to the last breath, down to the dying embers of consciousness.

Show me one neuron that has some cellular semblance of free will. And there is no such neuron.

I used to very politely say that if there is free will then it's in all sorts of boring places, like whether you're going to pick up this or that fork as you begin your meal. There really is none: It's all biology.

The brain is the black box: the final frontier.

I consider myself to be a 'reducetarian.' I try to consume less and be aware of the decisions I'm making. Not just food, but single-use plastics, and fossil fuels and energy.

You can't be at your full creative power if you are sedated.

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.

'The Magic Flute,' I think, is fundamentally asking what is it to change people's consciousness.

My body is sometimes this thing I look at and think, 'What strange, alien thing grew around my consciousness?' It's like this weird fungus that's just there.

Qué somos nosotros, después de todo –nuestras acciones, nuestras percepciones– sino nervios que se disparan, ritmos?

Gradually my whole concept of time changed until I thought of a month as having twenty-five days of humanness and five others when I might just as well have been an animal in a steel trap.

Man can only receive what he sees himself receiving.

You must form the habit of living in the fourth dimension, "The World of the Wondrous." It is the world where you do not judge by appearances.

What man condemns in others, he attracts to himself.