Aristotle Quotes

That in the soul which is called the mind is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing.

To begin to understand the gorgeous fever that is consciousness, we must try to understand the senses and what they can tell us about the ravishing world we have the privilege to inhabit.

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.

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

In Psychology we deal with minds and their processes, and leave out of account as far as possible the objects that we get to know by means of them.

It's one thing thinking something and another thing knowing it.

The senses collect the surface facts of matter... It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience; when mind acted, it was knowledge; when mind acted on it as knowledge, it was thought.

What do you think of the human mind? I mean, in case you think there is a human mind.

Your mind makes out the orange by seeing it, hearing it, touching it, smelling it, tasting it and thinking about it but without this mind, you call it, the orange would not be seen or heard or smelled or tasted or even mentally noticed, it's actually, that orange, depending on your mind to exist! Don't you see that? By itself it's a no-thing, it's really mental, it's seen only of your mind. In other words it's empty and awake.

Consciousness is a sea ringed with visions.

The five senses are the ministers of the soul.

Whatever we know without inference is mental.

Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.

We can conceive a thinking being to have either many or few perceptions. Suppose the mind to be reduced even below the life of anoyster. Suppose it to have only one perception, as of thirst or hunger. Consider it in that situation. Do you conceive any thing but merely that perception? Have you any notion of self or substance? If not, the addition of other perceptions can never give you that notion.

All thinking, knowing, perception, space-time, occur in consciousness. You are a non-local consciousness. The world is in you.

It is clear that every immediate object of our senses both exists and is real in the primary meaning of these terms so long as we remain aware of the object.

The great mystery of our consciousness is beyond our grasp.

Light comes to us by the sensibility. Without visual sensibility there is no light, no movement.

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

When I see a colour or hear a sound, I am aware of something, and not of nothing.

If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both.

Without consciousness, space and time are nothing.

Everybody agrees that the brain is a remarkable machine. It's capable of generating an enormous number of phenomena, some of them very obvious and some of them less obvious. But I think that in the end there are going to be some very basic explanations for many things: emotions, awareness, consciousness, attention, perception, recognition.

The forms of my awareness are richer than yours.