Concerned Quote by John Searle

An observation, strictly, is only a sensation. Nobody means that we should reject everything but sensations. But as soon as we go beyond sensations…

— Harold Jeffreys

Observe, and in that observation there is neither the "observer" nor the "observed" - there is only observation taking place.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear.

— Sherlock Holmes

Objectivity is the delusion that observations could be made without an observer.

— Heinz von Foerster

An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.

— Niels Bohr

Is there an observation which is not the instrument of thought?

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Consciousness is nothing but awareness the composite of all the thing we pay attention to.

— Deepak Chopra

The universe and the observer exist as a pair. I cannot imagine a consistent theory of the universe that ignores consciousness.

— Andrei Linde

Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

There's certainly nothing original about the observation that conscious experience poses a hard problem.

— David Chalmers

It is what makes conscious of the conditions and laws of observing which applied in this manner become a theme on its own. The…

— Antoni Tapies

An unconscious consciousness is no more a contradiction in terms than an unseen case of seeing.

— Franz Clemens Brentano