consciousness Quotes

The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.

The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.

The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.

The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.

We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.

If our subconscious was attractive, we wouldn't have to bury it down deep within us.

No other planet in the solar system is a suitable home for human beings; it's this world or nothing. That's a very powerful perception.

We are not without empathetic terror when we open Pascal's 'Pensees' and read, 'I am the great silent spaces between worlds.'

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.