Quotes about Consciousness
When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.
— Frank Herbert
What senses do we lack that we can not see or hear another world all around us?
— Frank Herbert
The mystery of consciousness? Erroneous data—significant results.
— Frank Herbert
And Jessica, noting the words and manner, caught the deeper implications in the phrase, "the body's water.
— Frank Herbert
the mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience
— Frank Herbert
You had to pick and choose, discreetly animating the past. And was that not the purpose of consciousness, the very essence of being alive? Select from the past and match it against the present: Learn consequences.
— Frank Herbert
And he wondered: What is the now?
— Frank Herbert
Moneo is trapped. He has learned that it is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.
— Frank Herbert
Could you be anything but bluntly honest with a wide-awake human being?
— Frank Herbert
Know thyself? Dasein sensed then he couldn't know himself without dying. Death was the background against which life could know itself.
— Frank Herbert
one does not obtain food-safety-freedom by instinct alone…animal consciousness does not extend beyond the given moment nor into the idea that its victims may become extinct…the animal destroys and does not produce…animal pleasures remain close to sensation levels and avoid the perceptual…
— Frank Herbert
Most people don't realize that the mind constantly chatters. And yet, that chatter winds up being the force that drives us much of the day in terms of what we do, what we react to, and how we feel.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn