Quotes About Consciousness

Intuition ... appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.

Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.

The truth of a thing is the feel of it, not the think of it.

We are so clothed in rationalization and dissemblance that we can recognize but dimly the deep primal impulses that motivate us.

The mind can assert anything, and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.

The brain is not, and cannot be, the sole or complete organ of thought and feeling.

Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

The brain is the citadel of sense perception.

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.

Let each man think himself an act of God. His mind a thought, his life a breath of God.

If a man thinks about his physical or moral state, he usually discovers that he is ill.

Our memories are independent of our wills. It is not so easy to forget.

To want to forget something is to think of it.

What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind.

If some great power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being some sort of clock and wound up every morning before I got out of bed, I should close instantly with the offer.

To be seeing the world made new every morning, as if it were the morning of the first day, and then to make the most of it for the individual soul as if each were the last day, is the daily curriculum of the mind's desire.

Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, which alone insures vitality and durability.

All of us are watchers - of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway - but few are observers. Everyone is looking, not many are seeing.

The things we see are the mind's best bet as to what is out front.

Our costliest expenditure is time.

One should count each day a separate life.