Consciousness Quote by Carl Sagan Download Open image “It's hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness.” — Carl Sagan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Consciousness Creatures Philosophy of Mind Vastness
An unconscious consciousness is no more a contradiction in terms than an unseen case of seeing. — Franz Clemens Brentano Copy Share Image
I worry that we don't have a very good definition of consciousness yet which makes it hard to tackle. — Edward Boyden Copy Share Image
“No consciousness that we would recognize as consciousness. Not awareness, as far as we can make out, of a self with a history. What… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body. — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
I believe consciousness is brazenly physical, a raucous mirage the brain creates to help us survive. — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Without consciousness the mind-body problem would be much less interesting. With consciousness it seems hopeless. — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
No organism can afford to be conscious of matters with which it could deal at unconscious levels. — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
Consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable. — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. But is it… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The prediction of nuclear winter is drawn not, of course, from any direct experience with the consequences of global nuclear war, but rather from… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Telepathy’ literally means to feel at a distance, just as ‘telephone’ is to hear at a distance and ‘television’ is to see at a… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“On the scale of worlds—to say nothing of stars or galaxies—humans are inconsequential, a thin film of life on an obscure and solitary lump… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
In our time, we have sifted the sands of Mars, we have established a presence there, we have fulfilled a century of dreams! — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“[ When a religious couple wrote to Sagan about fulfilled prophecies, he wrote back in May 1996 :] If ‘fulfilled prophecy’ is your criterion,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
We live on a hunk of rock and metal that circles a humdrum star that is one of 400 billion other stars that make… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
A tiny blue dot set in a sunbeam. Here it is. That's where we live. That's home. We humans are one species and this… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“I now argue that entry into Upper Palaeolithic caves was probably seen as virtually indistinguishable from entry into the mental vortex that leads to… — James David Lewis-Williams Copy Share Image
How wonderful it would be to scatter words as they rise to consciousness, to let them lie where they fall. — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
“People and situations always show us what we need to see and learn about ourselves, and when we take responsibility for our own feelings,… — Eliza Mada Dalian Copy Share Image
With the realization of God comes all power. If the little wave knew that behind it is the great ocean, it could say, "I… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
We do not want to be reminded that it is we, the indigenous people, who are poor and exploited in the land of our… — Steven Biko Copy Share Image
It is proposed that a form of free dialogue may well be one of the most effective ways of investigating the crisis which faces… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
The purpose is to be in gratitude forever. Live with applied consciousness, prosperity will break through the walls, flood you with it. You do… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
“No one has any right to tell you that the way you perceive yourself is wrong. Because by doing so, they also discourage the… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
A language possesses utility only insofar as it can construct conventional boundaries. A language of no boundaries is no language at all, and thus… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
So many people are passive participants in their very short time of having a consciousness, and those who aren't inspire me. Like Malala Yousafzai… — Dylan Gelulla Copy Share Image
“The vision teller tells the vision to unguarded minds' of prey. The programmed.” — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
