John Searle Quotes

Life is but thought.

Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.

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.

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.

Without consciousness, space and time are nothing.

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

I am strongly convinced that not only too much consciousness but even any consciousness at all is a sickness.

Life is consciousness.

Time and space are just projections of your consciousness.

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

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.

Materialism ends up denying the existence of any irreducible subjective qualitative states of sentience or awareness.

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

I worry that we don't have a very good definition of consciousness yet which makes it hard to tackle.

The problem is we think we exist.

I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.

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

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

The world is real. Consciousness is the illusion.

The great mystery of our consciousness is beyond our grasp.

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.

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

I became really interested in the study of consciousness.

I dream, therefore I exist.

The forms of my awareness are richer than yours.