Angela Carter Quotes

At times I think and at times I am.

Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.

Sometimes I think, sometimes I am .

In the phrase ' human being,' the word 'being' is much more important than the word 'human.'

All thought of something is at the same time self-consciousness [...] At the root of all our experiences and all our reflections, we find [...] a being which immediately recognises itself, [...] and which knows its own existence, not by observation and as a given fact, nor by inference from any idea of itself, but through direct contact with that existence. Self-consciousness is the very being of mind in action.

Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.

The problem is we think we exist.

The mind, whatever else it is, is a constant of everyone's experience, and, in more ways than we know, the creator of the reality that we live within... Nothing is more essential to us.

Life is but thought.

I think, therefore I am.

I am, therefore I'll think.

What's more valuable - intelligence or consciousness?

I--this thought which is called I--is the mould into which the world is poured like melted wax.

The actuality of thought is life.

The self is known to every one but not clearly. You always exist.

As long as I am thinking, I am alive.

You are not a human being. You are not your body, you are not your mind, and you are not your soul. These are things that You have. The You that has these things - indeed, that has given your Self these things - is far bigger than any of them, and even all of them put together.

This perceiving, active being is what I call mind, spirit, soul, or myself. By which words I do not denote any one of my ideas, but a thing entirely distinct from them, wherein they exist, or, which is the same thing, whereby they are perceived; for the existence of an idea consists in being perceived.

Are we our bodies? Is a small person less than a big person, then? If we were our bodies, then when we lost an arm, or a leg, would we be less, would we begin to fade from existence? No. We are the same person. We are not our bodies; we are our thoughts. As they form, they define who we are, and create the reality of our existence.

What thou art, that thou art.

Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification.

Life is consciousness.

We are what we are, wherever we are.

Among the facts of the universe to be accounted for, it may be said, is Mind; and it is self evident that nothing can have produced Mind but Mind.

A long time ago, Descartes sad, “I think, therefore I am.” But if you are not thinking, what?