Quotes about Consciousness

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.

The degree of slowness is directionally proportional to the intensity of memory. The degree of speed is directionally proportional to the intensity of forgetting.

I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.

At any moment in time, our reality is based on whatever we focus on.