Quotes About Consciousness

Life is shaped from the inside out.

I do not believe that I am now dreaming, but I cannot prove that I am not. I am, however, quite certain that I am having certain experiences, whether they be those of a dream or those of waking life.

It is obviously possible that what we call waking life may only be an unusual and persistent nightmare.

To find the true cause of how you think and feel, find the 'sponsoring thought' that created the interpretation that created your experience of life.

Who knows if this other half of life where we think we're awake is not another sleep a little different from the first.

If you're just grinding up hamburger at McDonald's, I see that as a bit of an affront to living things. You're not really honoring the life.

We only really, deeply consider what our life is when we're faced with mortality on some level.

No concept is a carrier of life.

You only have so much time in life so everything you do needs to mean something to you.

I know myself as mortal, but this raises the question: "What is I?" Am I an individual, or am I an evolving life stream composed of countless selves?

Life is now... this day, this hour...and is probably the only experience of the kind one is to have.

Life begets intelligence, intelligence begets smart matter and a singularity.

The ascent to greatness, however steep and dangerous, may entertain an active spirit with the consciousness and exercise of its own power: but the possession of a throne could never yet afford a lasting satisfaction to an ambitious mind.

Refuse. Because every time you say yes, you are inviting more to be made. You have created demand for more waste. So we refuse all of that.

Men (people) are rarely aware of the real reasons which motivate their actions.

Continuous interpretation is achieved by trying to control every approach to the public mind in such a manner that the public receives the desired impression, often without being conscious of it. High-spotting, on the other hand, vividly seizes the attention of the public and fixes it upon some detail or aspect which is typical of the entire enterprise.

It would also require a conscious effort to look at the world from unfamiliar standpoints and admit that the West has no monopoly on truth or virtue.

The forecast was cloudy with extended periods of consciousness, followed by a stitch in my side and a sense of impending doom swelling to a symphony of demolition

Io sono come il sonnambulo che cammina lungo il crinale di un tetto a passi sicuri e con calma lui cammina senza vedere senza udire Ma qualcuno lo assale con urla via via sempre più forti si risveglia e piomba giù dal tetto al di fuori dei suoi sogni Non fatemi questo non questo io serenamente cammino dentro ai sogni che sono la mia vita soltanto così posso vivere

the biological mind is the essence and the very meaning of the human condition.

The conscious mind, ungrounded by the wisdom of the body, is remarkably incapable of taking care of business.

Given that the pre-frontal cortex is a key to our success as a species, consuming any amount of alcohol or other intoxicant seems really stupid.

A substantial literature on "verbal overshadowing," for instance, suggests that consciously reflecting on our perceptions or evaluations of taste, and then being forced to put them into words, actually impairs our judgment.

What could he do but accept the disturbing extent to which memory was fictional and hope that the fiction lay at the service of a truth less richly represented by the original facts?