Quotes About Consciousness

Our goal is simple. It is to continue to inspire people through my father's legacy. There is a lot of value in continuing to put that energy out into the consciousness.

Sometimes I'm not even aware of some of the issues going on with me in my life until I sit down and start kind of looking for inspiration, trying to find something that inspires that creativity.

When I look at something, it is certain that for an instant I am one with what I see.

We actually form the world at every instant, although we're not cognitively aware of that but - and there are people would argue with that to some degree.

Live fully in the instant.

Many live to eat, instead of the other way around.

You just wish you could lobotomize yourself and just do a thing that's really on instinct. There's always a certain self-consciousness. And you worry about that.

We need a better way to talk about eating animals, a way that doesn't ignore or even just shruggingly accept things like habits, cravings, family and history but rather incorporates them into the conversation. The more they are allowed in, the more able we will be to follow our best instincts.

I think there's always the whole expectation that men can age and look fine, and girls have to be all conscious. But guys can also keep their skin intact.

The best thing you can do for yourself is lower your meat intake, so I try to do one day a week meatless.

We don't have any power other than our intellect and our hearts.

I'm really trying to dredge up what one might call intellectual and moral material. For example, when do you realize that you are an American? What age does that happen to you? When do you realize what religion your parents practice? When does it all become conscious? I was interested in exploring all of that.

Intellectually, I believe there's no free will.

I realized we're all walking around asleep, intellectually comatose, dead to the facts.

We intellectuals are not stupid: we know the phenomenology of guilt is a bad photocopy of the phenomenology of thought, so it's much cheaper to press that button.

The people who work in intelligence work are more conscious, more apt to be attentive.

One should be able to control and manipulate experiences with an informed and intelligent mind.

I'm an incredibly intelligent, insightful human being.

We need some great failures. Especially we ever-successful Americans - conscious, intelligent, illuminating failures.

What does it mean to be human, and what is at the human heart, and is there a soul, or is that all there is? Can an artificial being be intelligent? Is 'intelligent' the definition of humanity, or is it something deeper?

For all we know, we are the only shot the universe has at intelligent self-organization. Therefore, we need to take it seriously.

If everyone is to be made responsible for everything they do, you must extend responsibility beyond the level of conscious intention.

We either live with intention or exist by default.

I have an intention to live each moment fully.