Quotes About Consciousness

I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself.

Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view.

My mother died in 1997 and I spiralled into this self-destructive vortex of trying to annihilate my consciousness. I was afraid to face the grief of losing her, because she was somebody I loved more than anybody else in the world.

Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens.

Women need to become conscious of the impact that their attitudes and actions can have on future generations of voters and politicians.

Harry Dean Stanton

Having a self, even a simple self, allows you to look into the world and put a mark over what is more important and less important. It's a way of classifying the world in terms of your own needs.

I try not to get too self-absorbed.

You know, you do have a self-awareness as an actor.

Is it possible to have negative self-awareness?

Self-awareness is something that we actually actively avoid.

Self-realization is great.

When you have a child, you really understand what it means to love, to have something to be selfless for. I think that elevates you. It elevates your consciousnesses, your level of thinking, your art and the way you approach it - everything.

Live with all of your senses.

I've still got my senses about me, and I know what's right and wrong, which is the main thing.

It is sensible of me to be aware that I will die one of these days. I will not 'pass away.'

I'm sensitive to the things I see.

Look, when AIs come up, they're not going to be like us. A self-aware, sentient AI is not going to be like a human.

It's only a matter of time before machinery becomes sentient. It's going to happen because we're already slaves to all of it.

There is no separation between mind and body... Self and other co-arise and fall away all the time.

I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence, I know likewise that I shall exist no more when I shall have ceased to feel.

Alicia Silverstone

People read stuff over your shoulder when you're in public, and when you write the kind of stuff I do, and people read it over your shoulder, it makes you a little self-conscious.

The simple fact of existence, of being aware that you are aware; this to me is the most astounding fact.