“I feel myself. But it's only the eye with a lash in it, the swollen finger, the infected tooth that feels itself,… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Language disguises the thought; so that from the external form of the clothes one cannot infer the form of the thought they… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“Within the scope of human cognitive experience, consciousness, when perceived, becomes awarenesss... Awareness is the qualia of consciousness...Awareness is the perception of… — Ilchi Lee Copy Share Image
Thoughts are slippery fish in a cold shallow stream.If you are intent on capturing a worthwhile one, you need to stand very… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
“Entropy is the normal state of consciousness—a condition that is neither useful nor enjoyable. To avoid this condition, people are naturally eager… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
The inspiration of a noble cause involving human interests wide and far, enables men to do things they did not dream themselves… — Joshua Chamberlain Copy Share Image
When our thoughts look real, we live in a world of suffering. When they look subjective, we live in a world of… — Michael Neill Copy Share Image
What am I then...? Everything that I have seen, heard, and observed I have collected and exploited. My works have been nourished… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“desire are united to his purpose by the use of Sigils, or sacred letters. By projecting consciousness into one object, sensation becomes… — Austin Osman Spare Copy Share Image
The great effort of civilization has been, and still is, the attempt to introduce a principle of control into that casual swarm… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
Attention is like energy in that without it no work can be done, and in doing work is dissipated. We create ourselves… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“Thought exists only in words, or in images. Meditation demands the most extraordinary discipline – not the discipline of suppression and conformity… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The modern reader (or viewer, or listener: let's include everybody) is perilously overloaded. His attention is, to use the latest lingo,'targeted' by… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
But I cannot recite, even thus rudely, laws of the intellect, without remembering that lofty and sequestered class of men who have… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I snapped to consciousness with the incandescent realization that somewhere, deep in our dreams, or deep in unconsciousness, or deep in the… — Rex Pickett Copy Share Image
Be conscious first of thyself within, then think and act. All living thought is a world in preparation; all real act is… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
A prejudice may be an unreasoned judgment, he [Hibben] pointed out, but an unreasoned judgment is not necessarily an illogical judgment. ...… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
In the new alchemy, we have a similar kind of way of thinking. Our internal space includes our intuitions, our thoughts, our… — Fred Alan Wolf Copy Share Image
Imagine your mind as a garden and thoughts as the seeds you plant. Habitual negative, unhealthy, self-critical thoughts produce the weeds and… — Sue Thoele Copy Share Image
“The book you read and read well, over and over again, lives in you, becomes your thought and thinking pattern, teaches you… — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
“What indeed is the half-life of a mortal consciousness? What is the half-life of a memory of that mortal consciousness? Of course,… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
“But there comes a point (and this is the challenge facing modern technological Western man) when the cult of technique destroys feeling,… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
What is this world condition? Body is the world condition. And with body and form goes feeling, perception, consciousness, and all the… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
One of the ultimate challenges of biology is to understand how the brain becomes consciously aware of perception, experience and emotion. But… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
“Every conscious thought you have, every moment you spend on an idea, is a commitment to be stuck with that idea and… — Kevin Michel Copy Share Image
Egoic consciousness is the one we all normally operate with, until we are told there is something else! Every culture teaches egoic… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
There is an old and a new consciousness of the age. The old one is directed towards the individual. The new one… — Theo van Doesburg Copy Share Image
“Never true,' Old Ben would say. 'Useful- now, there's something. Your mind might make a connection that is useful. But true is… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The effect on human consciousness of the experience of the Presence of God is subjectively transformative and identical throughout human history. It… — David Hawkins Copy Share Image
Mysterious spaces cause us to turn inward. Amid a rich upwelling of association, we encounter many aspects of ourselves. As we grow… — John Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
“They who have received some portion of God’s gift, these, if judged by their deeds, have from death’s bond won their release;… — Muata Ashby Copy Share Image
And yet, within her anxiety, secured there like a gemstone, she carries the cool and curious power of occasionally being able to… — Carol Shields Copy Share Image
If human beings are losing every time, it doesn't matter whether they're losing to a conscious machine or an completely non conscious… — Stuart J. Russell Copy Share Image
“And men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty waves of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the… — St. Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The discoveries of the last couple decades are showing that properties of a self do actually inhere in matter, that matter seems… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
“Again, there is psychological risk in the robotic moment. Logan’s comment about talking with the AIBO to “get thoughts out” suggests using… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
We think there’s someplace other than here to get to—that’s what drives the whole pursuit. Only when the pursuit ceases, is it… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“Human life is designed as a self-study program. Existence is always one undivided. It is what we often call the Light. It… — Raphael Zernoff Copy Share Image
To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of… — George Boole Copy Share Image