Quotes About Consciousness

I think, if you were being cruel to animals, then the thought of eating them would be horrific.

If I sleep for more than half an hour, I get horrible dreams in which I'm firing a gun and helicopters are coming down.

Im interested in those things that hover in our unconsciousnesses - class, gender, identity - until we have to think about them for whatever reason. So normal is whatevers normal for you, until its not.

If you're playing the a historical character that's in the public consciousness, then obviously you've got to make an effort to look like that person and there's a huge amount of historical record there that you have to kind of comply to.

In 'Chappie,' you see this sort of young robot that's learning through maybe 'deep learning' how to see the world really, look out into the world, and learn step by step. What's so interesting is that with 'Chappie,' you're getting to see how human behavior reacts to artificial intelligence, and I don't think it's always going to be positive.

What the human being sees, what is poured into his environment, becomes a force in him. In accordance with it, he forms himself.

A human being becomes human not through the casual convergence of certain biological conditions, but through an act of will and love on the part of other people.

To be alive as a human being is to know, in the same way as it is to have a heart that beats.

What I am is a thinking, feeling human being compelled by history.

How we think about the future and the past determines everything about how we think about our situation as human beings.

The other half is to dramatize the fact that we still 'are' human beings, now. Or can be.

No one in human history has given as much thought to the interweaving of altered states of consciousness and religion as I have.

The human race is getting into a spiritual way of thinking, even if they don't know about it, because this is the natural need of the human being.

Of all living things, only humans consciously anticipate death; the consequent need to choose how to behave in its face - to worry about how to die - distinguishes us from other animals. The need to manage death is the particular lot of humanity.

Humans will die like all living things do, but we have the added burden of knowing that we will.

It's hard to change someone's ideas when they might not even really consciously know that they're being racist, or have racist ideas, just because ballet has been this way for hundreds of years.

We all feel that hunger in football. With Cruyff, it was different. He deepened and changed the hunger so you became conscious of why you are getting better.

Doing no evil, Engaging in what's skillful, And purifying one's mind: This is the teaching of the buddhas.

Drunkenness as a triumphant irruption of the plant in us.

When Spinoza says that we do not even know what a body can do, this is practically a war cry. He adds that we speak of consciousness, mind, soul, of the power of the soul over the body; we chatter away about these things, but do not even know what bodies can do. Moral chattering replaces true philosophy

It's a strange business, speaking for yourself, because it doesn't at all come with seeing yourself as an ego or a person or a subject.

Cogito para un yo disuelto.

Nothing had consequence, I was living in the moment and I could feel myself getting shallower and dumber.

Because every morning you have to wake up and be you.