Consciousness Quotes

"A deeper understanding of consciousness demands a historical and evolutionary context." "The mind is the brain at work." "Consciousness is an effect not a cause." "The only meaning of life is the meaning we create." "Cogito ergo sum " "Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theater" "Turn a deaf ear to those who say you are not up to the task. The one great limitation to human consciousness is time. It is our temporal boundary. We cannot transcend it" "The universe is not short on wake-up calls. We’re just quick to hit the snooze button." "The final end of every human undertaking, whether in science, art, or religion, is the human realization of the identity between the knower and the known, the seer and the seen, the experiencer and the experienced." "Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs." "The whole point of the psychedelic experience is to challenge the concept of who you are." "Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere" "The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know" "The self thus becomes aware of itself only by its opposition to another self " "Be here. Be present. Wherever you are, be there " "The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself" "Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else." "Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters inside your skull." "I don't have to tell you that reality is out there" "I think, therefore I am a liberal"