Consciousness Quote by William Peter Blatty

Multiple exclamation marks,' he went on, shaking his head, 'are a sure sign of a diseased mind.

— Terry Pratchett

“Self-consciousness is, from a naturalistic point of view (in this case neurobiological), not more than a degree of sophistication of neural processes. The emergence…

— István Aranyosi

...consciousness is a coherent whole, which is never static or complete, but which is in an unending process of movement and unfoldment.

— David Bohm

“Well, neither does anyone else. We use concepts like ‘consciousness’—‘mind’—‘personality,’ but we don’t really know yet what they are. So when I start talking…

— William Peter Blatty

“He had figured out that thoughts exist in silence and have no colour or sound or shape until they are turned into words. Spoken…

— Rita Leganski

“That moment of shaking had been a whole battle too abrupt for a human mind to follow. He wasn’t sure if that was amazing…

— James S.A. Corey

“His brain was in one of those states that are both violent and yet frighteningly calm, in which thought runs so deep it blots…

— Victor Hugo

[L]et my reader who is puzzled by my awkward explanations close his eyes for no more than two minutes, and see if he does…

— Shirley Jackson

Sensations are nothing but confused modes of thinking.

— Rene Descartes

“About all we know about consciousness is that it has something to do with the head, rather than the foot.”

— Dean Radin

“But he did not think....thoughts formed in him and dissolved without control, almost like a reverie. And since he had got through life in…

— Victor Serge

The momentum of the mind can be vexingly, involuntarily capricious.

— Gregory Maguire