consciousness Quotes

You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.

You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.

We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful.

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.

We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.

'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.

Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.