Quotes About Consciousness

Thought is everything. Pain is something. Hence where there is no thought there can be no pain. Wherefore if you have a pain it is evident that you have a thought. To be rid of the pain stop thinking.

SHALMANESER That real cool piece of hardware up at the GT tower. They say he's apt to evolve to true consciousness one day. Also they say he's as intelligent as a thousand of us put together, which isn't really saying much, because when you put a thousand of us together look how stupidly we behave.

I did not know everything there was to know about myself, and knew that I did not know it.

ambedo a momentary trance of emotional clarity.

kairosclerosis n. the moment you realize that you're currently happy—consciously trying to savor the feeling—which prompts your intellect to identify it, pick it apart and put it in context, where it will slowly dissolve until it's little more than an aftertaste.

I want to keep the emptiness away, to realize the Sense of what it's like to be alive instead of just existing.

I only know I'm living in the interval between The luxuries of consciousness and the straits of sorrow, A bare condition of mere being in which nothing changes And a life is just the sum of its details as it slowly slips away. — John Koethe, from "On Being Dead," Beyond Belief: Poems (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2022)

A solicitor had looked up at the sky, swept blue by the wind, and had a sudden sense of religious consolation, a feeling that this life cannot possibly be all, and that it is not possible for consciousness to end with the end of life.

The space in which one looks, in which one examines is philosophically very different from the space in which one sees

The pressures of being a parent are equal to any pressure on earth. To be a conscious parent, and really look to that little being's mental and physical health, is a responsibility which most of us, including me, avoid most of the time because it's too hard.

Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.

Nothing is real.

To be capable of embarrassment is the beginning of moral consciousness. Honor grows from qualms.

The recognition of human insignificance did not, as one might have expected, enhance the role of divine agency in explaining human affairs: it had just the opposite effect. It gave rise to a secular consciousness that, for better or for worse, placed the responsibility for what happens in history squarely on the people who live through history

Beliefs are limits to be transcended.

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, a white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas. How comes it to be furnished? ... To this I answer, in one word, from experience.

Personal Identity depends on Consciousness not on Substance

I must confess, by death here, I can understand nothing but a ceasing to be, the losing of all actions of life and sense.

Personal identity is made of sameness of consciousness.

It is evident the mind knows not things immediately, but only by the intervention of the ideas it has of them.

En la mente humana hay intelecto, memoria y voluntad, pero las tres son una. Y,

Perhaps most of us spend so much of our time thinking about the past or planning for the future that there is a very real danger that we never fully come to terms with the present.

The light which enlightens us bathes the whole of creation but it enters us through a narrow aperture