consciousness Quotes

While the faculty of sensation is dependent upon the body, mind is separable from it

It is of itself that the divine thought thinks (since it is the most excellent of things), and its thinking is a thinking on thinking.

But nothing is yet clear on the subject of the intellect and the contemplative faculty. However, it seems to be another kind of soul, and this alone admits of being separated, as that which is eternal from that which is... ...

"The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time."

The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only one of these is present, we say that the thing is alive, if, for instance, there... ...

What has soul in it differs from what has not, in that the former displays life. Now this word has more than one sense, and provided any one alone of these is found in a thing we say that thing... ...

You'll understand what life is if you think about the act of dying. When I die, how will I be different from the way I am right now? In the first moments after death, my body will be scarcely different... ...

"The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time. Get into a fist fight, put your mind on the strategy of the fight, and you will not feel the other fellow's punches."

The soul of animals is characterized by two faculties, (a) the faculty of discrimination which is the work of thought and sense, and (b) the faculty of originating local movement.

Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.

That in the soul which is called the mind is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing.

To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.