Dyan Cannon Quotes

The material universe exists only in the mind.

I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it.

The world is real. Consciousness is the illusion.

Metaphysics is a science.

I think, therefore I am.

I stick my finger into existence.. it smells of nothing. Where am I? Who am I? What is this thing called the world? What does this word mean?

Is the ground a philosophical concept? Has mind a relationship to the ground? Is it an idea to be investigated? Is the ground put together by thought?

From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon.

Life is but thought.

Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.

Human beings are not capable of creating a thought that truly conceives of this existence. Nobody knows if we are really here, alive, or anything. It's a mystery.

'Do not touch ontologically' doesn't mean 'are separated by empirically measurable hard edges.'

The order and connection of ideas is the same as the order and connection of things.

Logic doesn't apply to the real world. D. R. Hofstadter and D. C. Dennett (eds.) The Mind's I, 1981.

There is no matter as such—mind is the matrix of all matter.

This whole world is mind's world, the product of the mind.

To be is to be perceived

Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.

I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.

My major preoccupation is the question, 'What is reality?'

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 be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.

The possible ranks higher than the actual.

Lofty questions about the mind are fascinating to ask, philosophers have been asking them for three millennia both in India where I am from and here in the West - but it is only in the brain that we can eventually hope to find the answers.

The great mystery of our consciousness is beyond our grasp.

The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks.