David Hume Quotes

I'm your mind", it claims. "You can't parse ME into dendrites and synapses

Do you even recognize your own consciousness?

Which came first, the mind or the idea of the mind? Have you never wondered? They arrived together. The mind is an idea.

The mind has no existence by itself; it is only the glitter of the sun on the surface of the waters.

The problem is we think we exist.

Actually, I think most people accept the existence of qualia.

The great mystery of our consciousness is beyond our grasp.

Consciousness, rather than being something that we have, is something we participate in.

The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.

I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.

The leading edge of reality is mind, and mind is the primary substratum of being.

There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.

You believe that you are your mind. This is the delusion.

Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.

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.

Without consciousness there would, practically speaking, be no world, for the world exists as such only in so far as it is consciously reflected and considered by a psyche. Consciousness is a precondition of being.

We use concepts like "consciousness"---"mind"---"personality," but we don't really know yet what these things are.' He was shaking his head. 'Not really. Not at all.

Where consciousness is concerned, the appearance is the reality.

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

it is in our minds that we live much of our life.

[D]oes the real world have any more substance than visions and hallucinations when we're having them? At any given moment, what's happening in our minds is all and everything that happens.

Many people mistakenly suppose that the essence of consciousness is that of a control mechanism

The mind is a kind of theater, where several perceptions successively make their appearence; pass, re-pass, glide away, and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations.

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.