Quotes About Consciousness

No one believes in his own death.

The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.

Where id was, there ego shall be.

Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.

Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?

The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.

Alle bedro seg selv, og ingen ville innrømme det. Men da jeg visste dette og innrømmet at sikkerlig jeg også bedro meg selv, så var altså jeg iallfall ingen selvbedrager.

Hva vet et menneske om virkeligheten? Kan vi noengang skjelne mellom det som er vår egen private stemning, det som stiger opp av vårt eget indre altså, og det som når frem til oss som bølgeslag utenfra?

Recordar el presente es alargar más el tiempo.

Thoughts are strange things. they have 'representational' powers: a thought typically represents the world as being one way or another. A sensation, by contrast, seems to just sit there.

I cannot climb out onto the nature of your mind. So how then do I know anything about your mental life? How do I know, for instance, that you see the colour blue the way that I do? Might it be that some of us feel pain more, but make less fuss about it, or that others feel pain less, but make more fuss?

Consciousness is a story that we tell ourselves. But what if that story is a lie?

The mid-century Conservative Party in England had arrived at a universal font truth: we tend to treat the traditional and familiar as trustworthy. We are dubious of fonts that alert us to their difference, or fonts that seem to be trying too hard. We don't like being consciously sold things, or paying for fancy design we don't need.

Business practices and how we treat the planet are also in desperate need of re-humanization.

If they could only have gathered their thoughts for a moment, they would have known these fears weren't real

He realized this early on, and realized too that what people think are their lives are merely its conditions. The truth is closer than thought and lies buried in what we already know.

Lives are staged from within.

You have to live for the moment, each and every day . . . the here, the now.

I think perhaps we want a more conscious life.

She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.

You can have a slouch in your mind as well as you back.

There comes a time when we have to put "knowing" aside and stick to "being.

There comes a time when we need to realize that we don't know what we do not know, we only know what we know and that's all we know.

Be careful not to make your mind your biggest enemy.