“Normal people choose their thoughts like they choose what to watch on TV.” — John Green Copy Share Image
The miracle and hope of human consciousness is that we can still conceive of boundlessness. — John Green Copy Share Image
“The way he talked about thoughts was the way i experienced them---not as a choice,but as a destiny. Not a catalog of… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Once you think a thought, it is extremely difficult to unthink it. And I had thought the thought” — John Green Copy Share Image
“I told myself that having a thought was not dangerous, that thoughts aren't actions, that thoughts are just thoughts.” — John Green Copy Share Image
The universe is biased toward consciousness because the universe wants to be noticed. It's a way into existential hope that doesn't have… — John Green Copy Share Image
There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you,… — John Green Copy Share Image
Every second of your definitionally temporary consciousness, you are choosing how you spend something that will not last forever. — John Green Copy Share Image
“Thoughts are only thoughts.They are not you, you belong to yourself even when your thoughts don't.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“But you give your thoughts too much power, Aza. Thoughts are only thoughts. They are not you. You do belong to yourself,… — John Green Copy Share Image
I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is inprobably biased toward the consciousness, that it rewards intelligence… — John Green Copy Share Image
“All my life, I'd been unable to think straight, unable to even finish having a thought because my thoughts came not in… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is improbably biased toward the consciousness, that it rewards intelligence… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the universe wants to be noticed. That’s what I believe. I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I think the universe is improbably biased toward consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being… — John Green Copy Share Image
“There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you,… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Dr. Karen Singh liked to say that a unwanted thought was like a car driving past you when you're standing on on… — John Green Copy Share Image
“That’s what I believe. I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is improbably biased toward consciousness, that… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I have these thoughts that Dr. Karen Singh calls "intrusives" but the first time she said it, I heard "invasives," which I… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it seems the universe wants to be noticed.’ “That’s what I believe. I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I… — John Green Copy Share Image
“You know what I believe? I remember in college I was taking this math class, this really great math class taught by… — John Green Copy Share Image
“The universe wants to be noticed. The universe is improbably biased toward consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe… — John Green Copy Share Image
“The perception of who you are is more important than who you are. You are what other people think of you.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“I think the universe is improbably biased toward consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being… — John Green Copy Share Image
I was struck by an awful thought, the kind that cannot be taken back once it escapes into the open air of… — John Green Copy Share Image
“But for some people, the invasive can kind of take over, crowding out all the other thoughts until it's the only one… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Thoughts are just a different kind of bacteria, colonizing you. I thought about the gut-brain information axis. Maybe you're already gone. The… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I told myself that imagining a met in my brain or my shoulder would not affect the invisible reality going on inside… — John Green Copy Share Image
Issac:"I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters." Computer: "I don't understand-" Issac: "Me neither. Pause — John Green Copy Share
She smiled with all the delight of a kid on Christmas morning and said, "Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die." -… — John Green Copy Share
Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea… — John Green Copy Share
“Traffic's not too bad on Sheridan, and I'm cornering the car like it's the Indy 500, and we're listening to my favorite NMH song,… — John Green Copy Share
So I was ugly. I was never fat, really, and I never wore headgear or had zits or anything. But I was ugly. I… — John Green Copy Share
“said to him quietly, as if I couldn’t hear or something. Dad was about to respond but I interrupted.” — John Green Copy Share
“He was hot. A nonhotboy stares at you relentlessly and it is, at best, awkward and, at worst, a form of assault. But a… — John Green Copy Share
I think if you keep the box closed long enough you do kill the cat, actually. — John Green Copy Share
Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it… — John Green Copy Share
