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title: "19 Consciousness Just Quotes by 17 authors"
description: "Browse 19 Consciousness Just quotes by 17 authors. Discover the best Consciousness Just sayings and thoughts."
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> [Individual consciousness is just sickness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yevgeny-zamyatin/individual-consciousness-is-just-sickness/)

[Yevgeny Zamyatin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yevgeny-zamyatin/)

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> [I get my best ideas in that state of suspended consciousness just before sleep.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-bastian/i-get-my-best-ideas-in-that-state-of-suspended-consciousness-just/)

[Michael Bastian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-bastian/)

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> [Speed is a way to escape consciousness and just act.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-snow/speed-is-a-way-to-escape-consciousness-and-just-act/)

[Michael Snow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-snow/)

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> [Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-dennett/human-consciousness-is-just-about-the-last-surviving-mystery/)

[Daniel Dennett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-dennett/)

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> [If you want to know the state of your personal consciousness, just look around and see what is happening to you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/deepak-chopra/if-you-want-to-know-the-state-of-your-personal-consciousness-just/)

[Deepak Chopra](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/deepak-chopra/)

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> [A computational device is incapable of developing a mind. We got consciousness not just by being clever.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-penrose/a-computational-device-is-incapable-of-developing-a-mind-we-got/)

[Roger Penrose](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-penrose/)

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> [Consciousness is not personal. Human consciousness is just an expression of universal consciousness, which pervades the entire universe.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eckhart-tolle/consciousness-is-not-personal-human-consciousness-is-just-an/)

[Eckhart Tolle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eckhart-tolle/)

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> [Tools and techniques ought to be an extension of consciousness, but they can just as easily be a protection from consciousness. Then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rollo-may/tools-and-techniques-ought-to-be-an-extension-of-consciousness-but/)

[Rollo May](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rollo-may/)

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> [I think civilization is going to get to a point where we suddenly become responsible, stewards of the whole evolutionary process. This…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-houston/i-think-civilization-is-going-to-get-to-a-point-where-we-suddenly/)

[Jean Houston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-houston/)

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> [Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery... a topic that often leaves even the most sophisticated thinkers tongue-tied and confused.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-dennett/human-consciousness-is-just-about-the-last-surviving-mystery-a-topic/)

[Daniel Dennett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-dennett/)

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> [ ...\[I am\] utterly entranced, at times, with the mere fact that there are other people, and that they experience themselves as the… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-carol-oates/i-am-utterly-entranced-at-times-with-the-mere-fact-that-there-are/)

[Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-carol-oates/)

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> [“First and most importantly, death is just the absence of life—oh, and for human beings, the absence of consciousness, too, but not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-stross/first-and-most-importantly-death-is-just-the-absence-of-life-oh-and/)

[Charles Stross](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-stross/)

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> [Consciousness is somehow a by-product of the simultaneous, high frequency firing of neurons in different parts of the brain. It's the meshing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-crick/consciousness-is-somehow-a-by-product-of-the-simultaneous-high/)

[Francis Crick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francis-crick/)

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> [Now I have to say I'm a complete atheist, I have no religious views myself and no spiritual views, except very watered…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-chalmers/now-i-have-to-say-i-m-a-complete-atheist-i-have-no-religious-views/)

[David Chalmers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-chalmers/)

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> [(On sleep) Is it just the interval of life rudely interrupted by the static of having to please the boss at home…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-dansky/on-sleep-is-it-just-the-interval-of-life-rudely-interrupted-by-the/)

[Martin Dansky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-dansky/)

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> [Ultimately, there is no such thing as "my consciousness," but just the one consciousness and to sense your connectedness with the one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eckhart-tolle/ultimately-there-is-no-such-thing-as-my-consciousness-but-just-the/)

[Eckhart Tolle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eckhart-tolle/)

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> [The popular prophets have underestimated how strange the truth can be. The human brain, that 'perfect instrument,' that 'fabulous electronic dance,' can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marilyn-ferguson/the-popular-prophets-have-underestimated-how-strange-the-truth-can-be/)

[Marilyn Ferguson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marilyn-ferguson/)

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> [Objects must cease, mind must become just a pure mirror - a mirroring, not mirroring anything - just a mirror without any…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/objects-must-cease-mind-must-become-just-a-pure-mirror-a-mirroring/)

[Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/)

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> [Change of state is not the point; recognizing the Changeless is the point, recognizing primordial Emptiness is the point, and if you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ken-wilber/change-of-state-is-not-the-point-recognizing-the-changeless-is-the/)

[Ken Wilber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ken-wilber/)

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