Buddhism Quote by Frederick Lenz

Consciousness poses the most baffling problems in the science of the mind. There is nothing that we know more intimately than conscious experience, but…

— David Chalmers

Most people who've never experienced non-ordinary states of consciousness and only hear them described tend to try to describe them in terms of the…

— Fred Alan Wolf

When philosophers try to understand consciousness, much of what they claim is not conceptual analysis at all, though it may be shopped under that…

— Patricia Churchland

If the unconscious must express itself it will do so through the work that you do consciously or subconsciously, with words, with what you…

— Simone de Beauvoir

Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses.

— Seamus Heaney

The centermost processes of the brain with which consciousness is presumably associated are simply not understood. They are so far beyond our comprehension that…

— Roger Wolcott Sperry

The unconscious is structured like a language.

— Jacques Lacan

The key to the understanding of the character of the conscious lies in the region of the unconscious.

— Carl Gustav Carus

Consciousness is not a bunch of thoughts or a certain level of understanding. Consciousness is a dimension that is beyond our physicality.

— Jaggi Vasudev

“Consciousness has evolved biologically and can therefore be explained biologically.”

— James David Lewis-Williams

Since I don't believe in externalism, I don't think it can explain consciousness!

— Tim Crane

...consciousness is a coherent whole, which is never static or complete, but which is in an unending process of movement and unfoldment.

— David Bohm