#consciousness

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

__

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,

__

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

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

__

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

__

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

__

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

__

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

__

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

__

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

__

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

__

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

__

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

__

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

__