Answers Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false…

— Christopher Hitchens

Consciousness is the creative element in the universe. Without it, nothing would appear.

— Fred Alan Wolf

I don't believe any experiment until it is confirmed by theory. I find this is a witty inversion of "conventional" wisdom.

— Arthur Eddington

If science could get rid of consciousness, it would have disposed of the only stumbling block to its universal application.

— Brand Blanshard

See who is the subject; and this inquiry leads you to pure Consciousness beyond the subject.

— Ramana Maharshi

Give all your attention to the question: 'What is it that makes me conscious?', until your mind becomes the question itself and cannot think…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“It is the result of thinking, not the process if thinking, that occurs spontaneously in consciousness.”

— David McRaney

Could it ever be explained, how matter becomes conscious?

— Ian Mcewan

“This may be set as a criterion to any-yes, 'to all: When such an experiment, such a trial, draws or tires, or makes the…

— Edgar Cayce

Molecules dissolve and pass away, but consciousness survives the death of the matter on which it rides.

— Deepak Chopra

Consciousness does affect matter.

— Russell Brand

Consciousness creates reality.

— Bernard Haisch