Quotes About Consciousness

Thinking is the soul speaking to itself.

The only object we truly possess is our own mind. The only pleasure over which we have complete dominion is the progress of our own understanding.

I don't want to tell you what to buy. I just want to help you think about why you're buying it.

Instead of buying six things, buy one thing that you really like. Don't keep buying just for the sake of it.

I'm a bit of a dude. I like meat. But I am buying it more responsibly, where it's more sourced responsibly.

We're always serving something, even if we're not aware of it. We're usually serving capitalism.

What I try to capture as a writer is the feeling of being alive, of being awake.

Make a careful list of all things done to you that you abhorred. Don't do them to others, ever.

I'm very careful not to have ideas, because they're inaccurate.

You have to be very careful with the art you create and you put out.

I am starting to get into this whole idea of caring about what I wear. There was a time in my life when I could not care less about fashion.

I've seen and always been extremely aware of racism... casual racism, serious racism... all of that.

The way that we tried to approach every piece of music is, if the song had a brain, it would be aware of its catalog.

Sometimes I catch myself stooping, and whenever I am like that, I am sure something is not quite right.

It's so easy to get caught up in the future and in the past.

I'm an African-American man. I've got to live with that. I've got to be cautious everywhere I go.

I think we should all try and do our bit to celebrate an eco-friendly Diwali to bring about an environmental change.

I look at my cell phone to see what time it is where I am, and then you behave accordingly. If people are eating, it must be time to eat.

It's interesting how sleepwalking in a certain way becomes an accumulation of your outside stimuli that's actually there and what's happening in your brain.

What challenges me is this - I want to walk out of a film with the experience of having done a film, not with a feeling that I have sleepwalked through it.

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

The fact is as you get older you can't just change things or be quite as laissez-faire; you're conscious of the effort and time it takes for things to happen.

I love charity shops.

When you are born into a body that takes the image of another, you ask yourself a question much like the famous 'chicken and egg' conundrum. Do you take the form of he, or does he take the form of you?