John Dewey Quotes

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.

Without consciousness, space and time are nothing.

Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.

The physical universe that you see is all in your mind. When you turn your mind off, or become unconscious, the physical universe, for you, disappears. Then, when you awaken your consciousness, the universe reappears magically. Quite simple really - no thoughts on your part, no physical world. As Walt Whitman succinctly stated: "The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual - namely to You." Without your mind to process it, the universe simply disappears into nothingness.

When anything is present to the mind, what is the very first and simplest character to be noted in it, in every case, no matter how little elevated the object may be? Certainly, it is its presentness .

Life is consciousness.

It is my mind, with its store of images, that gives the world colour and sound; and that supremely real and rational certainty which I call "experience" is, in its most simple form, an exceedingly complicated structure of mental images. Thus there is, in a certain sense, nothing that is directly experienced except the mind itself. Everything is mediated through the mind.

Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.

In reality, our mind is the creator of all the things we experience.

What is the subject of our thought? Experience! Nothing else!

To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive.

Time is the element that controls the consciousness, the very being of the people.

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.

I wish the children could be taught early on that our thinking creates our experience.

The great mystery of our consciousness is beyond our grasp.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

Wherever there is a conscious mind, there is a point of view.

What's more valuable - intelligence or consciousness?

Your thoughts do not create reality, but they do create your experience.

What you believe you experience.

Thought is the measure of life.

To ask at what time a man has first any ideas is to ask when he begins to perceive; having ideas and perception being the same thing.

The primary Reality is not what I think, but that I live, for those also live who do not think.

Apart from the body does the world exist? Has anyone seen the world without the body?