Quotes About Consciousness

If I had my druthers, I would be a brain in a jar, with a burlap skirt around the cart I'm on - I don't attend to my physical being much.

The only time I have problems is when I sleep.

I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.

I've had sleep paralysis.

Indolence is the sleep of the mind.

I can think. I can sleep. I can move. I can ride my bike. I can dream.

I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of seductive quality in all the hedonistic pleasures that pull on us.

Failure to take note of the fact that the character of twentieth-century humanity differs from that of humanity in the fifteenth century, let alone before and at the time of the Mystery of Golgotha, is to sleep through the process of world evolution.

In most of our dreams, our inner eye of reflection is shut and we sleep within our sleep. The exception takes place when we seem to awake within our dreams, without disturbing or ending the dream state, and learn to recognize that we are dreaming while the dream is still happening.

Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.

When I'm sleeping, if it gets in my face, sometimes it'll wake me up.

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

I am convinced that during bouts of insomnia, I have sometimes slept without knowing it.

I don't like the act of talking; it makes me slightly light-headed.

When you use the form of a novel, and you say 'I,' you are also saying 'I' for someone else. When you say 'you,' you are simultaneously in your room writing and in the outside world - you are seeing and being seen seeing, and this creates something slightly strange and foreign in the self.

I'm feeling in the earth a massive shift, in especially female consciousness, that is... slightly different than feminism. It feels like this mass reexamination of the stories we're being told.

All day long the door of the sub-conscious remains just ajar; we slip through to the other side, and return again, as easily and secretly as a cat.

Slow thinking has the feeling of something you do. It's deliberate.

When I ate slowly and deliberately, giving myself time to consider whether I actually wanted that next bite, I often discovered that I didn't.

Everyone is slowly catching on to this one - and I know everyone says this - but we need to make a little more effort with the environment. Everyone says they turn off their lights, but do they really?

I would like to see people more aware of where their food comes from. I would like to see small farmers empowered. I feed my daughter almost exclusively organic food.

More-radical scholars insist that an inherent clash exists between science and our long-held conceptions about consciousness and moral agency: if you accept that our brains are a myriad of smaller components, you must reject such notions as character, praise, blame, and free will.

When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.

But how does it feel to plug into a system that's say, a million times as smart as a person.