Quotes About Consciousness

To observe and to live are very different modes of experience.

Floating in this cosmic jacuzzi, we are all like frogs oblivious to the water starting to boil. No one flinches. We all float face-down.

He who searches for inward things sees not with the eyes of the body, but with the eyes of the soul.

Coulter remained near her, sword in hand. "I suppose it goes without saying, if you slip into a trance, you'll never come out of it." Kendra

I sound the same to myself.

A person knows when they're in darkness, even when they can't see. -Nightblood

To live was to be a fragment of the cosmere that was experiencing itself.

Sometimes Vin imagined she was like the ash, or the wind, or the mist itself. A thing without thought, capable of simply being, not thinking, caring, or hurting. Then she could be...free.

If you were the wall, what would you rather be? Dreary and dull, or alive with paint?" "Walls can't think!" "That doesn't stop them from caring.

Your ego doesn't count as a separate individual, Shallan.

Technology is limited", Jason said, "Only the mind is infinite.

It made my eyes make my brain think it forgot to wake up.

Long ago, there was only One. One knew everything, but had experienced nothing. And so, One became many—us, people. The One, who is both male and female, did so to experience all things.

Wasing not of wasing is", Quentin added.

Doesn't that bother you?" Kaladin asked. "That you might be a creation of human perception?" "You're a creation of your parents. Who cares how we were born? I can think. That's good enough.

She felt less like a mere human being, and more like a human who was merely being.

Wasing not of wasing is," Quentin added.

It's hard sometimes," Noril said, stirring. "Coming awake means leaving the nothingness, you know? Remembering the pain. But then I think, 'Well, he gets up'.

Your hallucination has hallucinations." "Yes.

I cannot miss my own existence—by definition. So why would I fear it?

The world has always been like this, even if I didn't know it.

An awed voice in the back of his mind whispered, They're all the same. Metal, minds, men, all the same substance.…

Too many of us," she said, "take great pains with what we ingest through our mouths, and far less with what we partake of through our ears and eyes. Wouldn't you say?

If the losers remain disorganized and subject to false consciousness, not much will change. If they do organize themselves and find political champions who could tap into their resentment and get their votes, then it might be possible for the rich countries to put into place policies that would set them on the downward path of the second Kuznets wave.