#consciousness

Suffering – well, it is the sole determinant of consciousness. I did, though, set out at the beginning that consciousness, in

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I think of consciousness as a bottomless lake, whose waters seem transparent, yet into which we can clearly see but a

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If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reality is subject

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Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly

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I will never know how you see red and you will never know how I see it. But this separation of consciousness is recognized

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The existence of conscious minds and their access to the evident truth of ethics and mathematics are among the data that

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The instinctive persistence of life over and above any intelligence is something that provides matter for some of my

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Art is the community’s medicine for the worst disease of the mind, the corruption of consciousness.

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I’ve never loved anyone. The most that I’ve loved are my sensations – states of conscious seeing, impressions gathered

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The existence of consciousness is both one of the most familiar and one of the most astounding things about the world.

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With every increase in the degree of consciousness, and in proportion to that increase, the intensity of despair increases:

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Life is a vexatious trap; when a thinking man reaches maturity and attains to full consciousness he cannot help feeling that ...

The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it,

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I’m older than Time and Space, because I’m conscious. Things derive from me; the whole of Nature is the offspring of

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