Quotes About Consciousness

In 'The Female Fear: The Social Cost of Rape', Margaret T Gordon and Stephanie Riger say that fully one-third of the women in their study reported worrying about rape once a month or more. Others said the the fear of rape is just something lives in the back of their minds at all times, even when it wasn't present in conscious thought. Another third of the participants claimed to never worry about rape but even so they took precautions to guard against it.

Let your head be more than a funnel to your stomach

The first line says, "Be at all times without deluded thoughts arising." Deluded thoughts are the same thing as dichotomous thoughts, dualistic thoughts.

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.

The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing.

Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.

Obra de tal modo que cada uno de tus actos sea digno de convertirse en un recuerdo

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.

Me conformo con haber seguido el rastro de mis sentimientos hasta verlos languidecer y con ser consciente del modo en que se apagarán.

Men at first feel without perceiving, then they perceive with a troubled and agitated spirit, finally they reflect with a clear mind.

The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he can no longer distinguish the truth, within him or around him.

Il confine che separa i matti dai normali ci sembra netto, consistente, difficile da valicare. Invece è sottilissimo e in alcuni punti - in alcuni momenti - sfuma senza che ce ne accorgiamo. Ci troviamo nel territorio dei pazzi senza capire com'è successo - e del resto i pazzi lo sanno di essere da quelle parti?

For who has not wondered whether everything in this world might be alive? Though it be made of stone or wood or metal, there might be life in it, or opinion or, worst of all, resentment. The hewn boards of any boardwalk, did they recall the bite of the saw? Does memory linger in them? Perhaps the forge's fire still dreams in each nail. A building might be made entirely of injured and brooding things.

toward the counter. She had been aware

Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy.

Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine. He might, after all, be a sort of animal, namely, a higher mammal. There has yet to be ventured the hazardous leap to the hypothesis that perhaps he is a man.

Overt intelligent performances are not clues to the workings of minds; they are those workings.

When I do something intelligently, i.e. thinking what I am doing, I am doing one thing and not two. My performance has a special procedure or manner, not special antecedents.

When a boy begins to notice that he is fonder of arithmetic, or less homesick, than are most of his acquaintances he is beginning to be self-conscious, in this enlarged sense.

The first question which we had to decide had nothing to do with the occurrence or non-occurrence of any occult episode in the boy's stream of consciousness; it was the question whether or not he had the required higher-level competence, that of knowing how to tie reef-knots.

Moreover both this constant awareness (generally called 'consciousness'), and this non-sensuous inner perception (generally called 'introspection') have been supposed to be exempt from error.

champions of the dogma of the ghost in the machine tend to argue that the imputed objects of consciousness and introspection cannot be myths, since we are conscious of them and can introspectively observe them.

It is a subsidiary question how you conduct your imaginings, including your imagined monologues.

If I think, hope, remember, will, regret, hear a noise, or feel a pain, I must, ipso facto, know that I do so.