Quotes About Consciousness

Pensar en que 'estamos solos', sólo porque a ti nunca se te ha ocurrido que existe otro modo de estar.

It seemed to him that he was one of the thoughts of the Universe and that the Universe was a thought of his.

He started to count to ten. He was desperately worried that one day sentient life forms would forget how to do this. Only by counting could humans demonstrate their independence of computers.

McDonald's, he thought. There is no longer any such thing as a McDonald's hamburger. He passed out.

McDonald's, he thought. There is no longer any such thing as a McDonald's hamburger. He passed out.

They were not the same eyes with which he had last looked out at this particular scene, and the brain which interpreted the images the eyes resolved was not the same brain. There had been no surgery involved, just the continual wrenching of experience.

Bir ÅŸeyi görmen onun orada olduÄŸu anlam?na gelmez. Ayn? ÅŸekilde bir ÅŸeyi görmemen de onun orada olmad??? anlam?na gelmez. Her ÅŸey alg?lar?n?n senin dikkatini nereye yönelttiÄŸine baÄŸl?d?r.

You are not your body.

Figure our what it is you don't do very well, and then don't do it. I'm not beating myself up about doing everything perfectly. The litmus test I always use for myself is: Okay, if you won 20 million tomorrow in the lottery would you still being doing the same thing you are doing now with your life, Dough? The answer is yes. I'm always very conscious of that.

What is human behavior, except trying to prove that we're not animals?

Is that all time is - our perception of how quickly it does or does not pass?

Truth be told, John said, the one thing in this world I want more than anything else is a great big crowbar, to jimmy myself open and take whatever creature that's sitting inside and shake it clean like a rug and then rinse it in a cold, clear lake like up in Oregon, and then I want to put it under the sun to let it heal and dry and grow and sit and come to consciousness again with a clear and quiet mind.

Besides, animals don't even have time. Only humans have time. It's what makes us different.

I believe that what separates humanity from everything else in this world – spaghetti, binder paper, deep-sea creatures, edelweiss, and Mount McKinley – is that humanity alone has the capacity at any given moment to commit all possible sins." --Hey Nostradamus!

I don't remember where I was before I was born, why should I be worried about where I go after I die?

Mphhh... What did you say Tyler?' Anna-Louise mumbles on the bed above me. I stand up, and a tame blue bird lands on my shoulder and tries to nibble my earlobe. I gently shake Anna-Louise fully awake. 'Anna-Louise, wake-up,' I say. 'Wake up--the world is alive.

It's amazing how you can be a total shithead, and yet your soul still wants to hang out with you.

It's what makes us different from every other creature in the world - we have time. And we have choices

Six silent people in a room got me to thinking about the voice we hear in our heads when we read, the universal narrator's voice you may well be hearing right now. Whose voice *is* it you're hearing? It's not your own, is it? I didn't think so. It never is. So I posed the question out loud..." ...When you read a book, whose voice is it you hear inside your head? It's certainly not my own, said Harj, and the others chimed in with the same claim. Then whose it?

And in his heart, I think, he's now learned what I've come to believe, which is, as I've said all along, that the sun may burn brightly and the faces of children may be achingly sweet, but in the air we breathe, in the water we drink and the food we share, there will always be darkness in the world.

Some day you cross this thin line and you really realize that we need to protect ourselves from ourselves.

But if you accept dreams, you also have to accept nightmares, and I know nightmares are bad things. And if dreams are so special, why is it that no person or company has ever tried to make a drug that leads to better dreaming? Sleeping pills, yes, but dreaming pills? Have scientists even asked that question?

At what point in evolution did man acquire the knowledge of good and evil, and thus the capacity to be damned? In this light, the story of Adam and Eve takes on deeper significance. It is a parable of evolution.

Be in the world but not of it.