Consciousness Quotes

When a child comes in, I believe that it's a 'multipersonhood,' and it knows it, its consciousness knows it, and it has a nuclei in the center of its consciousness that is the repository of all experience and all knowledge. And when you look in the eyes of your baby and you feel this sense that they are an old soul, I believe indeed they are.

I think that consciousness has always been the most important topic in the philosophy of mind, and one of the most important topics in cognitive science as a whole, but it had been surprisingly neglected in recent years.

Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time.

So for instance it becomes clear why space and time and even the properties of matter itself depend on the observer in consciousness. In fact when you take this point of view it even explains why the laws of the universe themselves are fine tuned for the existence of life.

It just is nothing foreign to consciousness at all that could present itself to consciousness through the mediation of phenomena different from the liking itself; to like is intrinsically to be conscious.

The evolution of humans can not only be seen as the grand total of their wars; it is also defined by the evolution of the human mind and the development of the human consciousness.

I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.

Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning.

I know that you are part of me and I am part of you because we are all aspects of the same infinite consciousness that we call God and Creation.

It's from our sufferings that we form our consciousness.

But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.

As a result of the awareness and consciousness of decline, an awareness and consciousness of a national ethnicity or an Islamic identity also came into being.

But it has, in addition, an even more precious quality - a consciousness of the human intelligence, the human spirit and that man is a social creature.

I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience.

Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.

The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.

I recall feeling an almost delicious terror when one day I found myself alone in the midst of tall June grasses that grew high as my head. But here the secret working of self consciousness is almost too entangled with the things of the past for me to explain it.

Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every one who consecrates his art to the divine services of a conviction of a consciousness.

What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?

Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness.

Often, even after years, mental states once present in consciousness return to it with apparent spontaneity and without any act of the will; that is, they are reproduced involuntarily.

We should be exploring consciousness at the neural level and higher, where the arrow of causal analysis points up toward such principles as emergence and self-organization.

If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death.

My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.

Even when I was studying mathematics, physics, and computer science, it always seemed that the problem of consciousness was about the most interesting problem out there for science to come to grips with.

Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings, one individual at a time.

I think it's science and physics are just starting to learn from all these experiments. These experiments have been carried out hundreds and hundreds of times in all sorts of ways that no physicist really questions the end point. I think that these experiments are very clearly telling us that consciousness is limitless and the ultimate reality.

Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.

The world is real. Consciousness is the illusion.

I have a picture of an ideal consciousness.