Quotes about Consciousness

On the occasion of every act ask thyself, How is this with respect to me? Shall I repent of it? A little time and I am dead, and all is gone. What more do I seek, if what I am now doing is work of an intelligent living being, and a social being, and one who is under the same law with God?

Thou art a little soul bearing about a corpse

I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footing…. I'm a cloud, congealed around a central object, the shape of a pear, which is hard and more real than I am and glows red within its translucent wrapping. Inside it is a space, huge as the sky at night and dark and curved like that, though black-red rather than black.

God is a cluster of neurons.

I'm dreaming that I am awake.

We lived, as usual, by ignoring. Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.

the reason you can't really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, "I'll be dead," you've said the word I, and so you're still alive inside the sentence. And that's how people got the idea of the immortality of the soul — it was a consequence of grammar.

Maybe I don't really want to know what's going on. Maybe I'd rather not know. Maybe I couldn't bear to know. The Fall was a fall from innocence to knowledge.

she was beginning to emerge from the initial sex-induced coma created by him through

We have learned to see the world in gasps.

The person who has stopped being thankful has fallen asleep in life.

Be careful how you spend your time: Spend your time in nothing which you know must be repented of.