Philosophy of Mind Quotes by John Green

“Thought is not action.”

— John Green

“Normal people choose their thoughts like they choose what to watch on TV.”

— John Green

“You do belong to yourself, even when your thoughts don't.”

— John Green

Barnacles on the container ship of consciousness.

— John Green

Once you think a thought, it is extremely difficult to unthink it.

— John Green

“Thoughts are just a different kind of bacteria, colonizing you.”

— John Green

The miracle and hope of human consciousness is that we can still conceive of boundlessness.

— John Green

There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you,…

— John Green

Every second of your definitionally temporary consciousness, you are choosing how you spend something that will not last forever.

— John Green

“Thoughts are only thoughts.They are not you, you belong to yourself even when your thoughts don't.”

— John Green

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

“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

“Once you think a thought, it is extremely difficult to unthink it. And I had thought the thought”

— John Green

“I told myself that having a thought was not dangerous, that thoughts aren't actions, that thoughts are just thoughts.”

— John Green

“The perception of who you are is more important than who you are. You are what other people think of you.”

— John Green

“I think the universe is improbably biased toward consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being…

— John Green

“There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you,…

— John Green

“I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is improbably biased toward the consciousness, that it rewards intelligence…

— John Green

“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

I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is inprobably biased toward the consciousness, that it rewards intelligence…

— John Green

“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

“I told myself that imagining a met in my brain or my shoulder would not affect the invisible reality going on inside…

— John Green

“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

“You know what I believe? I remember in college I was taking this math class, this really great math class taught by…

— John Green

“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

“I have these thoughts that Dr. Karen Singh calls "intrusives" but the first time she said it, I heard "invasives," which I…

— John Green

“I think the universe is improbably biased toward consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being…

— John Green

“But you give your thoughts too much power, Aza. Thoughts are only thoughts. They are not you. You do belong to yourself,…

— John Green

“The universe wants to be noticed. The universe is improbably biased toward consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe…

— John Green

“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

I was struck by an awful thought, the kind that cannot be taken back once it escapes into the open air of…

— John Green

“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

“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