Conscious experience as such is an exclusively internal affair: Once all functional properties of your brain are fixed, the character of subjective… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
You could attach prices to thoughts. Some cost a lot, some a little. And how does one pay for thoughts? The answer,… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“I shake off the thought, knowing I can’t go forward tonight thinking things like that. Think with the big head, man! Think… — M. Leighton Copy Share Image
“We are not walking in the Word if our thoughts are opposite of what it says. We are not walking in the… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
“We all need a space to just let things be, a place to remember who we are and what is important to… — Nina Sankovitch Copy Share Image
“The nature of consciousness is to point beyond itself. It is a tending toward or pointing to... Since consciousness points beyond itself,… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
“But the reality of consciousness appears irreducible. Only consciousness can know itself—and directly, through first-person experience.” — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Just as we descend into our consciences to judge of actions which our minds can not weigh, can we not also search… — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
The only thought in the world that is worth anything is free thought. To free thought we owe all past progress and… — Richard Savage Copy Share Image
The expectations of theory colour perception to such a degree that new notions seldom arise from facts collected under the influence of… — Niles Eldredge Copy Share Image
Although the theory of relativity makes the greatest of demands on the ability for abstract thought, still it fulfills the traditional requirements… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
If the concept of consciousness were to fall to science, what would happen to our sense of moral agency and free will?… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
“Don't listen to me. Advice so rarely finds its inteded audience. It's like the sword in the stone — you leave it… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
For me, consciousness is the most interesting unsolved problem of science, and, in fact, we may never know what it is about… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Pondering was the highest vocation... Pondering was a special kind of thinking. It was not done in the mind, that chilly place,… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
“simply by deciding (and following through on the decision) to observe the on-going activity in your own mind. Using a computer metaphor,… — David Tuffley Copy Share Image
“I think we would all agree that people should not be jailed for thoughts. But when, if ever, does a thought cross… — Gil Valle Copy Share Image
“As a result of this averaging the collective consciousness holds certain stable beliefs regarding different things. And it is this collective belief… — Grigori Grabovoi Copy Share Image
“No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it. Collective thought is stupid because it’s collective.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Our focus is our reality. What we choose to focus on becomes our world. It produces our thoughts, values, attitudes, and beliefs. — David J. Lieberman Copy Share Image
there is a spirit in every home, a sort of composite spirit composed of the thoughts and feelings of the members of… — Laura Ingalls Wilder Copy Share Image
“I respond, thoughts dropping away, like pebbles plopping one by one in water, sinking down, down into dark oblivion.” — Sophie Jordan Copy Share Image
The Work: 1. Is it true? 2. Can you absolutely know that it’s true? 3. How do you react, what happens, when… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
“conscious thinking is largely asking and answering questions in your own head. If you want confusion and heartache, ask vague questions. If… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
“Part ways with your perception of reality, allow the unknown and your curiosity muster into a visual you've never allowed yourself to… — Elizabeth Lomeli Copy Share Image
When I turn the thought around - the thought that war, let's say war in Iraq, should stop - the turnaround is… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
Meditation is actually a very simple exercise in resting in the natural state of your present mind, and allowing yourself to be… — Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche Copy Share Image
The real discovery of having your consciousness raised was never that you'd be handed tools; it was the discovery that the only… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
The belief in creation as the background of empiricomathematical [sic] science - that seems strange. Yet the ways of thought, human thought,… — Alexandre Koyre Copy Share Image
Thoughts and emotions cannot be photographed, despite the protestations of some mystically minded portraitists. Physical fact is ultimately the sole pictorial material. — William Mortensen Copy Share Image
It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience. — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
“There was a single thought in my head: Keep thinking. Thinking would keep me alive. But now I am alive, and thinking… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Beautiful thoughts hardly bring us to God until they are acted upon. No one can have a true idea of right until… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world...enabling us to converse… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Reality is ultimately a selective act of perception and interpretation. A shift in our perception and interpretation enables us to break old… — David Simon Copy Share Image
I may venture to affirm the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capable only of fractured perceptions” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
It becomes necessary to realize that the body is not conscious, but we are conscious of the body, also that the mind… — Ernest Wood Copy Share Image
I don't really understand what the public perception of me is. I think public perception and reality are two wholly different things. — Tamara Mellon Copy Share Image
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