Consciousness Quote by Norman Spinrad

We are internally related to everything, not [just] externally related. Consciousness is an internal relationship to the whole, we take in the whole, and…

— David Bohm

That human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside. The 'situation' is the external environment. The inner environment is genes,…

— Philip Zimbardo

We live inside our mind. That's all there is. Everything that you experience is not external, it's internal. All your experiences are predicated upon…

— Frederick Lenz

Human nature is deeper and broader than the artificial contrivance of any existing culture.

— Anonymous

On the other hand, for the whole human being who wills, feels, and represents, external reality is given simultaneously and with as much certitude…

— Wilhelm Dilthey

Internal mental experience is not the product of a photographic process. Internal reality is in fact constructed by the brain as it interacts with…

— Daniel J. Siegel

... the more the mind dominates, the more the ego comes into play, and the further people depart from their true inner self. So…

— Stuart Wilde

“Externalization and objectivation are moments in a continuing dialectical process. The third moment in this process, which is internalization (by which the objectivated social…

— Peter L. Berger

“Second Principle of Biocentrism: Our external and internal perceptions are inextricably intertwined. They are different sides of the same coin and cannot be separated.”

— Robert P. Lanza

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

— Tim Crane

To me, inner and outer are so strongly linked that any collective change that happens within human beings, within the human psyche, inevitably will…

— Eckhart Tolle

What we're seeking to do is internalize perception. Perception is very much involved with the senses and the mental processes and the emotional processes.

— Frederick Lenz