Quotes About Consciousness

He felt as if he must leap somewhere out of the now, but everywhere it was now.

Raw neural input, from a brain that was not my own.

The mind is the only thing about human beings that's worth anything. Why does it have to be tied to a bag of skin, blood, hair, meat, bones and tubes? No wonder people can't get anything done, stuck for life with a parasite that has to be stuffed with food and protected from weather and germs all the time. And the fool thing wears out anyway—no matter how much you stuff and protect it! —Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Philip K. Dick

It's cool to use the computer, don't let the computer use you…. There is a war going on. The battlefield's in the mind. And the prize is the soul.

O que acontece depois da morte? Bem, não sabemos ao certo. Mas as evidências sugerem que não acontece nada. Você morre, seu cérebro para de funcionar e você some e deixa de fazer perguntas irritantes.

You're just dead, your brain stops working, and then you're not around to ask annoying questions anymore.

What happens when you die? Well, we're not completely sure. But the evidence seems to suggest that nothing happens. You're just dead, your brain stops working, and then you're not around to ask annoying questions anymore

and our seeming disregard for its effect on our already-changing climate—in an entirely new light.

It was a voice other than Reason that replied, 'You could live. You could be. You could do. There's a purpose you have to fulfil. You'd become more conscious of it every day you keep on living. There's a task for you; a responsibility that is yours and only yours.' 'Good enough,' I said. 'I'll get on with it.

Be fully in the moment,open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you.

Each one of us is an outlet to God and an inlet to God.

The universal Mind contains all knowledge. It is the potential ultimate of all things. To it, all things are possible.

The enlightened consciousness of life capitulates in the face of death, the ecclesiastical one cuts through it, but nowhere is the Gordian knot really entwined into victory.

The anarch's study of the history of the caesars has more of a theoretical significance for him - it offers a sampling of how far rulers can go. In practice, self-discipline is the only kind of rule that suits the anarch. He, too, can kill anyone (this is deeply immured in the crypt of his consciousness) and, above all, extinguish himself if he finds himself inadequate.

but rather with a concentration of being, and with that we enter a different order.

What interested me above all was the relationship of these substances to productivity. It has been my experience, however, that creative achievement requires an alert consciousness, and that it diminishes under the spell of drugs. On the other hand, conceptualization is important, and one gains insights under the influence of drugs that indeed are not possible otherwise.

The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses.

Do you really know yourself so well or are you making it up?' she asks. Some things I concoct, some I glean from my senses, most I thirst for.

The freedom we want, for ourselves and for others, is not an absolute metaphysical, abstract freedom which in practice is inevitably translated into the oppression of the weak; but it is real freedom, possible freedom, which is the conscious community of interests, voluntary solidarity.

Lottare per l'emancipazione integrale, aspettando e preparando il giorno in cui essa sarà possibile, strappare al governo ed ai capitalisti tutti quei miglioramenti politici ed economici che possono migliorare per noi le condizioni della lotta ed aumentare il numero di coloro che lottano coscientemente. E perciò strapparli con mezzi che non implichino il riconoscimento degli ordini attuali e preparino le vie dell'avvenire.

All you boys seem to think about is the things you can see and touch—that ain't living. It's the things you can feel inside of you—that's what living is made for.

a paradigm where information rather than matter is the basic reality

to effect large-scale changes in our lives and in the world, we need to hold large-scale visions in our minds and consciously pour our energy into them.