Erwin Schrodinger Quotes

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

We can never be quite clear whether we are referring to the world as it is or to the world as we see it.

We see only that which we are.

Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed.

There are no hierarchies, no infinite, no such many as mass, there are only/ eyes in all heads,/ to be looked out of.

But we shall not know the world by looking at it; we know it by looking at the hovering fly.

We bring about a world in consciousness that is partly what is given, and partly what we bring, something that comes into being through this particular conjunction and no other. And the key to this is the kind of attention we pay to the world.

The self is merely the lens through which we see others and the world.

The world you see is less of an indication about the world and more of an indication about your seeing.

Man knows himself only insofar as he knows the world, becoming aware of it if only within himself, and of himself self only within it. Each new subject, well observed, opens up within us a new organ of thought.

It seems to me that the real problem is the mind itself and not the problem which the mind has created and tries to solve.

We forget that the world is what we imagine it to be. We stop being the sun and become, instead, the pool of water reflecting it.

The physical body is conceived and constructed in consciousness as are time and space. All happens within our self.

The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.

Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception.

Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.

On the other hand, for the whole human being who wills, feels, and represents, external reality is given simultaneously and with as much certitude as his own self.

Life is but thought.

Without consciousness, space and time are nothing.

The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.

When people don't understand what they're watching, a lot of what they perceive has to do with who they themselves are.

The world is not outside you.

I thought of a high school report I did on the Belgian artist Rene Magritte and a quote I once read from him, something about his favorite walk being the one he took around his own bedroom. He said that he never understood the need for people to travel because all the poetry and perspective you're ever going to get you already posses. Anais Nin had the same idea. We see the world as we are. So if it's the same brain we bring with us every time we open our eyes, what's the difference if we're looking at an island cove or a pocket watch?

If you look at all the notions we accept about who we are, you find that they are all based upon our perceptual experiences.

We are what our thoughts have made us