Quotes About Consciousness

You can fool a lot of yourself but you can't fool the soul. That worrier.

there's a sickness worse than the risk of death and that's forgetting what we should never forget.

Butterflies don't write books, neither do lilies or violets. Which doesn't mean they don't know, in their own way, what they are. That they don't know they are alive—that they don't feel, that action upon which all consciousness sits, lightly or heavily. Humility is the prize of the leaf-world.

Whatever you know about here it doesn't tell you

Just where does self-awareness begin and end? With the June bug? With the shining, task-ridden ant? With the little cloud of gnats that drifts over the pond?

In the words of the late Francis Crick...You, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules. (13)

It would be especially comforting to believe that I have the answer to the question, What happens when we die? Does the light just go out and that's that—the million-year nap? Or will some part of my personality, my me-ness, persist? What will that feel like? What will I do all day? Is there a place to plug in my laptop?

I think that at the moment of death that little window opens up. I think that maybe we're all connected to something bigger than we are.

It is with considerable difficulty that I remember the original era of my being...

Life has more in it than we think; it is all that we have, all that we know.

Mi sembrava un sogno, però chiaro e oppressivo come la realtà.

But liberty had been a useless gift to me had I not, as I awakened to reason, at the same time awakened to revenge.

Was my dream but a mirror of the truth?

Our body and soul are one, yet how amazing that our body may not necessarily know our soul!

Just to live here and now—this is the true basis of human life.

Orang sekarang ini makan dengan pikiran mereka, tidak dengan tubuh mereka

Every human being relies on and is bounded by his knowledge and experience to live. This is what we call "reality". However, knowledge and experience are ambiguous, thus reality can become illusion. Is it not possible to think that, all human beings are living in their assumptions?

We don't know what kind of people we truly are until the moment before our deaths. As death comes to embrace you, you will realize what you are. That's what death is, don't you think?

Everyone lives bound by their own knowledge and awareness. They define that as reality; but knowledge and awareness are vage, and perhaps better called illusions.

We are humans, not fish. We don't know what kind of people we truly are until the moment before our deaths. As death comes to embrace you, you will realize what you are. That's what death is, don't you think?

People who are conscious that they are lying may try to cover up their body language. They will do this by trying to maintaining eye contact. However, this may result in having too much eye contact, which does not look natural. Their body may become stiff instead of being relaxed. A stiff upper body will result because of this.

What is going on now?" What is your body saying? Then

We consciously decide whether to consider people; we fall in love despite ourselves; we entirely fail to fall in love with people who fall in love with us. It is a mightily complicated business.

The comedian Emo Philips once joked that he considered his brain to be the most fascinating organ in his body – until he realised who was telling him this.