Conscious Quote by Ray Kurzweil

We are not conscious of most things until we ask ourselves questions about them.

— David Eagleman

We are things that labor under the illusion of having a self, a secretion of sensory experience and feeling, programmed with total assurance that…

— Matthew McConaughey

We aren't anything in particular. There is no self. There are only ideas and states of mind.

— Frederick Lenz

“Behind our behaviors are our beliefs. They determine how we think things are and what is possible. The foundation of these beliefs is our…

— Ilchi Lee

Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It is in some ways like a novel, and it's like a fabric of fictions…

— Dan Chaon

We were never there to begin with. What we are, or conceive of ourselves as, is a perception.

— Frederick Lenz

We invent mind-space inside our own heads as well as the heads of others ... we assume these 'spaces' without question. They are a…

— Julian Jaynes

I think human consciousness is a misstep in evolution. We became too self-aware, nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself. We are…

— Matthew McConaughey

Our ideas of self are created by identification. The less we cling to ideas of self, the freer and happier we will be.

— Jack Kornfield

We are what we are, because of the vibrations of thought which we pick up and register, through the stimuli of our daily environment.

— Napoleon Hill

What we do, as a conscious species, is set markers for ourselves. Once we reach one marker, we advance to the next.

— Thomas Ligotti

That which compels us to create a substitute for ourselves is not the external lack of objects, but our incapacity to lovingly include a…

— Anonymous