Ryan Trecartin Quotes

Technology has become such a big part of our humanity. We have the Internet on 24 hours a day, even when we're sleeping.

To be human is to be visible.

You can't think of technology as separate from all of our human drama anymore.

Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying in essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved.

Spaceflight gives us a chance to reflect on the context of our existence. We are reminded that we are human before any of our differences, before all of the lines are drawn that divide us.

The human body is not the person. Identity is the way the brain operates; it's memories, it's sensory input and output. The mind is the person.

I discover in my experiential space evidence for the wrongness of solipsism, and this evidence is called beauty.

I love individuals. I think people are terrific as I meet and get to know them. I like imagination. I like the freedom that this society manages to parcel out to us in the midst of the rest of what they do to you. I also like thinking about the fact that the atoms in me are the same atoms that are in all the rest of the universe, and that every one of those atoms came from the middle of a star. In other words, it's only me out there.

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

Whether consciousness is implanted in us by something divine, or whether it is created by the efforts of our brains, the end result is the same. We are.

Man, a hybrid of plant and ghost.

Dreams, they're what sets us apart from being mere a brain and a body.

How do you prove we exist? Maybe we don't.

I find that when I do not think of myself I do not think at all.

Our true reality is in our identity and unity with all life.

Now, through the catalytic interaction with technology, the human species is getting set to redefine itself.

I'm the idea of the human imagination, which, when you think about it, is the only thing we can really be certain ISN'T imaginary.

Just as man's physical existence was liberated when he grasped that 'nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed', so his consciousness will be liberated when grasps that nature, to be apprehended, must be obeyed - that the rules of cognition must be derived from the nature of existence and the nature, the identity, of his cognitive faculty.

The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.

The French say that to part is to die a little. To be forgotten too is to die a little. It is to lose some of the links that anchor us to the rest of humanity.

An object dies when the gaze that lights on it has disappeared.

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?

Distinctly different as a child, as an adolescent, in his prime and in his old age, man considers himself as one, not because he acts, but because he knows.

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