Active Quote by Thomas Metzinger

Consciousness is phenomenologically subjective whenever there is a stable, consciously experienced first-person perspective.

— Thomas Metzinger

To know the self as the only reality and all else as temporal and transient is freedom, peace and joy. It is all very…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Self Realization is the first encounter with reality.

— Nirmala Srivastava

“But the reality of consciousness appears irreducible. Only consciousness can know itself—and directly, through first-person experience.”

— Sam Harris

If we're reading a first-person account, we know that each and every one of us, myself included, have a great desire to be seen…

— Errol Morris

All thought of something is at the same time self-consciousness [...] At the root of all our experiences and all our reflections, we find…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

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

Knowing yourself now requires the understanding that the conscious you occupies only a small room in the mansion of the brain, and that it…

— David Eagleman

“One always needs to be reminded; one is by no means always in possession of one’s whole self. Our consciousness is feeble; only in…

— Thomas Mann

“Your self is your pure consciousness, which flows as it likes. Your personal self is the way you perceive yourself and the patterns of…

— The Unthered Soul

“The way you see and know yourself is also referred to as self-perception.”

— Benjamin Smith

The term "self" seems a suitable one for the unconscious substrate whose actual exponent in consciousness is the ego. The ego stands to the…

— Carl Jung