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Quotes About Consciousness

Yes, thinking meat! Conscious meat! Loving meat. Dreaming meat. The meat is the whole deal! Are you getting the picture?
~ Terry Bisson
Yes, thinking meat! Conscious meat! Loving meat. Dreaming meat. The meat is the whole deal! Are you beginning to get the picture or do I have to start all over?
~ Terry Bisson
Believe me, Kinson, the potensial for evil lodges deep in every man, myself included. We restrain it better, keep it buried deeper, but it lives within us.
~ Terry Brooks
But the pain and his memories of what had brought him to this state helped speed his efforts, and mustering what strength of body and will he could, he dragged himself back into consciousness.
~ Terry Brooks
When we are told to live in the moment, perhaps it is because that is where we know ourselves best. Before long, we find ourselves standing on the rim of a deeply forested valley that stretches away in front of us for several miles in three directions.
~ Terry Brooks
classes só se tornam de fato classes quando se conscientizam de si mesmas como tal
~ Terry Eagleton
If the oppressed must be alert enough to follow the rulers' instructions, they are therefore conscious enough to be able to challenge them.
~ Terry Eagleton
Are we our bodies? Is a small person less than a big person, then? If we were our bodies, then when we lost an arm, or a leg, would we be less, would we begin to fade from existence? No. We are the same person. We are not our bodies; we are our thoughts. As they form, they define who we are, and create the reality of our existence.
~ Terry Goodkind
I will have to admit, though, that I will never look at an apple in quite the same way.
~ Terry Goodkind
She understood, now, why life had seemed so empty, so pointless: she herself had rendered it so in refusing to think.
~ Terry Goodkind
The power is neither evil nor good; it simply exists. It is up to the mind of man to put it to use.
~ Terry Goodkind
there is no devil, jack said. we are the devil. the devil is us.
~ Terry Goodkind
Are we our bodies? Is a small person less than a big person, then? If we were our bodies, then when we lost an arm, or a leg, would we be less, would we begin to fade from existence? No. We are the same person. "We are not our bodies; we are our thoughts. As they form, they define who we are, and create the reality of our existence. Between those thoughts, there is nothing, simply the body, waiting for our thoughts to make us who we are.
~ Terry Goodkind
It is the mind that makes the person who they are, --- - Anna to Nicci. (Pg. 245)
~ Terry Goodkind
The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can't shut your mind.
~ Terry Pratchett
Open your eyes and then open your eyes again.
~ Terry Pratchett
First Thoughts are the everyday thoughts. Everyone has those. Second Thoughts are the thoughts you think about the way you think. People who enjoy thinking have those. Third Thoughts are thoughts that watch the world and think all by themselves. They're rare, and often troublesome. Listening to them is part of witchcraft.
~ Terry Pratchett
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~ Terry Pratchett
It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living.
~ Terry Pratchett
We sleepwalk through our lives, because how could we live if we were always this awake?
~ Terry Pratchett
The more you think about it, the more amazing the everyday world of human beings becomes: most of it doesn't actually exist at all.
~ Terry Pratchett
Well done,' said a voice somewhere behind him. 'Consciousness to sarcasm in five seconds!
~ Terry Pratchett
First Sight means you can see what really is there, and Second Thoughts mean thinking about what you are thinking. And in Tiffany's case, there were sometimes Third Thoughts and Fourth Thoughts although these...sometimes led her to walk into doors.
~ Terry Pratchett
Polly felt questing eyes boring into her. She was embarrassed, of course. But not for the obvious reason. It was for the other one, the little lesson that life sometimes rams home with a stick: you are not the only one watching the world. Other people are people; while you watch them they watch you, and they think about you while you think about them. The world isn't just about you.
~ Terry Pratchett