Thornton Wilder Quotes

Consciousness is the foundation of all thinking; and thinking is the foundation of all consciousness.

One must always be aware, to notice even though the cost of noticing is to become responsible.

Consciousness is the perception of what passes in man's own mind.

A conscious mind is a mind with a self in it.

It's just a constant thing when the mind starts to wake up to itself.

The mind aware of itself is a pilot... vastly freer than a passenger mind.

When you start meditating on your ego, on your thoughts, on your mind, you are suddenly separate, because whatsoever you meditate on, you are separate from it. That has become the object and you have become the subject.

I'm pretty much done with mindfulness. I'm just going to start paying attention.

I can't judge the way other people behave. I can only look at myself.

I wish I had fair justification for not being as informed as I should be, but I don't.

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

Evil is important for us to look at, in my opinion, only insofar as it makes us look at our own actions and make us wonder, 'Am I participating in some kind of human evil that I really should stop doing?'

Think before you act and act on what you believe.

Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.

It is what makes us human, what distinguishes us from other animals. We can be aware of being aware.

When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.

Life is but thought.

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

I became really interested in the study of consciousness.

All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.

The mind is always present. You just don't see it.

There's a constant drip and trickle of life that goes into one's awareness really and consciousness of things.

Stop blaming the world—look inside!

I am determined and resigned to being self-conscious.

I'm not saying I'm perfect. But I'm someone who analyses and reflects on what I do, whether it's in keeping with the ethics that I talk about in public. That's how I've been all my life.