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Quotes About Consciousness

The division between human and robot is perhaps not as significant as that between intelligence and nonintelligence.
~ Isaac Asimov
Por la Galaxia! ¿Cuándo puede saber un hombre que no es un títere? ¿Cómo puede saber un hombre que no es un títere?
~ Isaac Asimov
La palabra «libertad» no tiene sentido cuando se aplica a un robot. Sólo un ser humano puede ser libre.
~ Isaac Asimov
He was detecting what we—he and I—knew he would detect—that we were not our own masters. And I didn't want to know!
~ Isaac Asimov
What I have done is to choose between the death of my body and the death of my aspirations and desires. To have let my body live at the cost of the greater death - That is the true violation of the Third Law. Not this. As a robot I might live forever, yes. But I tell you that I would rather die as a man than live eternally as a robot.
~ Isaac Asimov
Când poate È™ti un om dac? este sau nu o marionet?? Cum poate afla un om c? nu este o marionet??
~ Isaac Asimov
lo evidente es en muchos casos lo más difícil de ver. La gente dice es tan claro como mi nariz, pero ¿qué porción de nuestra nariz podemos ver, a menos que nos den un espejo?
~ Isaac Asimov
Cuándo puede saber un hombre que no es un títere?
~ Isaac Asimov
The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise.
~ Isaac Asimov
No doubt the world is entirely an imaginary world, but it is only once removed from the true world.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
Even the worm that crawls in the Earth there glows a divine spark. When you slaughter a creature, you slaughter your God.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Rabbi thought he saw an expression of perplexity in the golem's eyes. It seemed to the Rabbi that his eyes were asking, 'Who am I? Why am I here? What is the secret of my being? Rabbi Leib often saw the same bewilderment in the eyes of newborn children and even in the eyes of animals.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
The rabbi thought he saw an expression of perplexity in the golem's eyes. It seemed to the rabbi that his eyes were asking, Who am I? Why am I here? What is the secret of my being? Rabbi Leib often saw the same bewilderment in the eyes of newborn children and even in the eyes of animals.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
Essere vegetariano è la mia protesta verso il comportamento collettivo. Essere vegetariano significa essere in disaccordo - in disaccordo su come va il mondo oggigiorno. Carestie, crudeltà - dobbiamo prendere una posizione contro queste cose. Il vegetarismo è la mia presa di posizione. E penso che sia una presa di posizione consistente.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on.
~ Isaac Rosenberg
If nothing hurts, that means I woke up dead
~ Isabel Allende
Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of unknown things. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality
~ Isabel Allende
La mente es mucho mas interesante que el cuerpo.
~ Isabel Allende
Tenía un pie en la ilusión obligada y otro en la realidad secreta
~ Isabel Allende
I have seen these persons speak unthinkingly, not realizing that to speak is also to be. Word and gesture are man's thought. We should not speak without reason.
~ Isabel Allende
She entered the place of her dreams along a much traveled path and returned treading very carefully in order not to shatter the tenuous visions against the harsh light of consciousness.
~ Isabel Allende
The fear is not real, Dil Bahadur; it is only in your mind, like all other things. Our thoughts form what we believe to be reality.
~ Isabel Allende
A escrita é uma longa introspecção, é uma viagem até às cavernas mais obscuras da consciência, uma lenta meditação. Escrevo às apalpadelas no silêncio e pelo caminho descubro partículas de verdade, pequenos cristais que cabem na palma da mão e justificam a minha passagem por este mundo.(...)
~ Isabel Allende
Nuestros pensamientos forman lo que suponemos es la realidad
~ Isabel Allende