Terry Pratchett Quotes

Every thought is an afterthought.

We have been so blinded by thinking and feeling that we have never seen the World.

We are not conscious of most things until we ask ourselves questions about them.

To think is not always to see.

How do you know, right now, that you are aware of being aware, or conscious?

The thought is not something that observes an inner event, but, rather it is this inner event itself. We do not reflect on something, but, rather, something thinks itself in us.

Ordinary mind includes eternal perceptions. Notice what you notice. Observe what's vivid. Catch yourself thinking. Vividness is self-selecting. And remember the future.

I break up through the skin of awareness a thousand times a day, as dolphins burst through seas, and dive again, and rise, and dive.

Sometimes I wish I wasn't as conscious as I am. It would be so much easier.

Thinking is only a small aspect of consciousness. Thought cannot exist without consciousness, but consciousness does not need thought

What is the relationship between awareness and thinking? Awareness is the space in which thoughts exist when that space has become conscious of itself.

I'm just thinking all the time. There are times when I don't really need to think. You know what I mean? If you think about stuff for five hours, you really only need to do like five minutes and the rest of sort of rehashing it and dramatically going over it.

Without the ability to think about yourself, to reflect on your life, there’s really no awareness, no consciousness. Consciousness doesn’t come automatically; it comes through being alive, awake, curious, and often furious.

There is thought, and then there is thinking about thoughts, and they don't feel the same.

We havent really paid much attention to thought as a process. we have engaged in thoughts, but we have only paid attention to the content, not to the process.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

I think and that is all that I am.

I try not to be overly analytical.

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.

Maybe I think too much.

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

As the ego cogito, subjectivity is the consciousness that represents something, relates this representation back to itself, and so gathers with itself.

Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.

Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think.

I think I tend to live in sort of a meta state of existence where I'm always analyzing and analyzing whatever I'm going through at any given moment, and a lot of times I'll reflect back on and go, 'Oh look at that - if I acted this way when that happened, I might not have thought of that that way.'