consciousness Quotes

“It's hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness.”

― Carl Sagan, Contact

topic:killing consciousness

“I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness—a real thorough-going illness.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground

topic:reason consciousness

“The earth is as old as we are, no older. How could it be older? Nothing exists except through human consciousness.”

― George Orwell, 1984

topic:age consciousness

“A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.”

― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

topic:future hope consciousness

“Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic ; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as the reality of the external world, and it is just as imperfectly reported to us through the data of consciousness as is the external world...”

― Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams

topic:reality consciousness

“I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is improbably biased toward consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

topic:intelligence universe consciousness

“the man is, as it were, clapped into jail by his consciousness.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

topic:consciousness

“Nothing in the real world is as beautiful as the illusions of a person about to lose consciousness.”

― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

topic:beauty consciousness

“There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that’s what everyone else does.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

topic:consciousness

“Examples of truths known to us by immediate consciousness, are our own bodily sensations and mental feelings. I know directly, and of my own knowledge, that I was vexed yesterday, or that I am hungry to-day.”

― John Stuart Mill, A System Of Logic

topic:truth knowledge feelings consciousness

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