Agents Quote by Thomas Ligotti

Consciousness has forced us into the paradoxical position of striving to be unself-conscious of what we are - hunks of spoiling flesh on disintegrating…

— Thomas Ligotti

Consciousness is a fascinating but elusive phenomenon: it is impossible to specify what it is, what it does, or why it evolved. Nothing worth…

— Stuart Sutherland

What we do not make conscious emerges later as fate.

— Carl Jung

Conscious evolution begins as we take responsibility for clearing our own obstructions.

— Dan Millman

“As Zapffe concluded, we need to hamper our consciousness for all we are worth or it will impose upon us a too clear vision…

— Thomas Ligotti

Consciousness is an emergent, contingent, and impermanent phenomenon. It has no magical capacity to break free from the field of events out of which…

— Stephen Batchelor

I believe consciousness is brazenly physical, a raucous mirage the brain creates to help us survive.

— Diane Ackerman

I worry that we don't have a very good definition of consciousness yet which makes it hard to tackle.

— Edward Boyden

We talk much more about individualism and liberty than our ancestors. But as so often happens, when anything becomes conscious, the consciousness is compensatory…

— John Dewey

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

— Thomas Ligotti

Consciousness is the original sin: consciousness of the inevitability of our death.

— David Cronenberg

“Consciousness - what we call our identity- is always unstable, always at risk of sabotage from the unacceptable feelings of loss and desire which…

— Rosalind Minsky