consciousness Quotes

We have no evidence as yet about mind or the power to think; it seems to be a widely different kind of soul, differing as what is eternal from what is perishable; it alone is capable of existence in isolation... ...

To perceive is to suffer.

For often, when one is asleep, there is something in consciousness which declares that what then presents itself is but a dream.

The soul never thinks without a picture.

The mind's energy is what makes life meaningful.

A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence.

Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot... ...

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.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

The actuality of thought is life.