Charles Sanders Peirce Quotes

Without consciousness, space and time are nothing.

Life is consciousness.

The simple fact of existence, of being aware that you are aware; this to me is the most astounding fact.

Life is but thought.

The quality of our attention determines our experience.

You do not have to imagine things; reality gives you all you need.

Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.

It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.

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.

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.

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

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.

The great mystery of our consciousness is beyond our grasp.

To be awake is everything.

To be awake is to be alive.

Every moment is an experience.

Life is a state of consciousness.

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

The mind is always present. You just don't see it.

What's more valuable - intelligence or consciousness?

We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.

You may return here once you have fully come to understand that you are always here.

Sometimes he could almost forget that it was there, the way you forget about the sky or the earth underfoot, but there were other times when it seemed as if there was nothing else in the world.

If the mind wants to comprehend reality, it will have to come out of the past and the future. But coming out of the past and the future, it is no longer the mind at all. Hence the insistence of all the great masters of the world that the door to reality is no-mind.