Quotes About Consciousness

By separating habitual cues from conscious awareness, the study showed that we eat in response to available cues: as long as there's food on our plate, we keep going.

Ansyen Prezidan Ayiti a Jean-Bertrand Aristide di ke Ayiti se peyi ki gen anpil moun ki viktim sou konsyans moun ki prejije. Mwen panse li di anpil verite.

What happens depends on our way of observing it or on the fact that we observe it.

A sentence is a set of words expressing themselves. A book is a set of words put together to change your consciousness."

Be careful not to trip over yourself.

The difference between the human and the zombie is that the human dominates the conscience and the zombie is consciousness-dominated.

The difference between the scarecrow and the mannequin is that they both don't know they are being used by others.

There are those who go their whole lives without realizing that they are repeating the same things every day."

Update your awareness before using it."

not only is consciousness in us, we are in consciousness.

Once a new and more reliable means of contact becomes commonplace, as it will, then this species is going to wake up to its true reason for existence, and in so doing is going to reach a whole new level of life.

The nature of the universe probably depends heavily on who is the actual protagonist. Lately I've been suspecting it's one of my cats.

Look around you—everyone here has their own internal monologue.

beware of your most implacable enemy-yourself.

To attempt this would be like seeing without eyes or directing the gaze of knowledge behind one's own eye. Modern science can acknowledge no other than this epistemological stand-point.

Bir korku duyup duymad???m? anlamaya çal???yorum. Ama korku duyup duymad???m üzerinde dü?ünebiliyorsam, bu korku gerçek bir korku olamaz.

?nsanlar elimizdeki özgürlü?ün, harekete geçme de?il, sadece konu?ma ve hayal kurma özgürlü?ü oldu?unun fark?nda de?il.

Full sexual consciousness and a natural regulation of sexual life mean the end of mystical feelings of any kind. In other words, natural sexuality is the deadly enemy of mystical religion. The church, by making the fight over sexuality the center of its dogmas and of its influence over the masses, confirms this concept.

This idealization of motherhood is essentially a means of keeping women from developing a sexual consciousness and from breaking through the barriers of sexual repression, of keeping alive their sexual anxieties and guilt feelings. The very existence of woman as a sexual being would threaten authoritarian ideology; her recognition and social affirmation would mean its collapse.

Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.

We have not the remotest realistic inkling of a consciousness which is not self-consciousness.

Multiple personalities. Don't freak out but I'm pretty sure I have them. Not a clinical thing, not a disease. But a distraction to be sure. There are maybe six or seven pretty concrete versions of myself knocking around in here and I mean it gets fucking crowded when everybody is drunk or talking at once.

Open your eyes, boy. Your eyes. Open your eyes and no more turn aside and brood.

Intelligence is the capacity to know what we are doing and instinct is just instinct. The results are about the same.