Quotes About Consciousness

All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half-used minds.

I've stopped drinking, but only while I'm asleep.

Our acts can be no wiser than our thoughts.

Free your mind and your ass will followThe kingdom of heaven is within

The whole cosmos is in a man's brains—as much of it, at least, as a man's brains will hold; perhaps it is nowhere else. And when sleep relaxes the will, and there are no earthly surroundings to distract attention—no duty, pain, or pleasure to compel it—riderless Fancy takes the bit in its teeth, and the whole cosmos goes mad and has its wild will of us.

If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.

Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness.

The blind spot of AI is that consciousness does not emerge from thought; it is the source of

The things you don't know or realize are an ocean, and your mind is a tiny boat upon its waves." Ancient disses were the best.

Living things have minds. Animated things have matrixes.

I'm more than the sum of my physical parts.

The things you don't know or realize are an ocean, and your mind is a tiny boat upon its waves

Two things fill the mind with renewed and increasing awe and reverence the more often and the more steadily that they are meditated on: the starry skies above me and the moral law inside me. I have not to search for them and conjecture them as though they were veiled in darkness or were in the transcendent region beyond my horizon; I see them before me and connect them directly with the consciousness of my existence

What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown

We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.

Thinking is conversation with oneself.

what things may be in themselves, I know not, and need not know because a thing is never presented to me otherwise than as a phenomena.

I have no knowledge of myself as I am but only as I appear to myself. The consciousness of oneself is therefore very far from being a knowledge of oneself.

For now we see that when we conceive ourselves as free we transfer ourselves into the world of understanding as members of it, and recognise the autonomy of the will with its consequence, morality; whereas, if we conceive ourselves as under obligation we consider ourselves as belonging to the world of sense, and at the same time to the world of understanding.

How things may be in themselves, without regard to the representations through which they affect us, is utterly beyond the sphere of our cognition.

To think an object, then, is not the same as to know an object.

It would be impossible to represent to ourselves darkness, unless light had been given to the senses.

The real is not given to us, but put to us by way of a riddle.

Dwell with yourself, and you will know how short your household stuff is.