consciousness Quotes

That in the soul which is called mind (by mind I mean that whereby the soul thinks and judges) is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing. For this reason it cannot reasonably be regarded as blended with the... ...

It's fair to ask if time would exist if there were no soul; because if there's no one to count, there can be nothing counted, so there clearly can't be number; for number is either what has been counted or... ...

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

Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable.

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... ...

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 soul is characterized by these capacities; self-nutrition, sensation, thinking, and movement.

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.