Phenomenal Experience Quotes

The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the 'pure' experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.

The world doesn't just disappear when you close your eyes, does it?

Consciousness is a sea ringed with visions.

Why not travel, why not see the rest of the world, why not experience life? It's beautiful! Phenomenal!

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.

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

A great deal of phenomenal experience has fostered in me a flexibility of the mind and imagination that some might call madness

Life can be absoletely phenomenal, and it should be.

How much of what we call 'reality' is actually out there or rather within our own head?

I believe that nothing can be more abstract, more unreal, than what we actually see. We know that all we can see of the objective world, as human beings, never really exists as we see and understand it. Matter exists, of course, but has no intrinsic meaning of its own, such as the meanings that we attach to it. We can know only that a cup is a cup, that a tree is a tree.

Consciousness is the perception of what passes in man's own mind.

Spacewalking trumps everything. Viscerally, it is a phenomenal place to be; to be able to glance right and see the world, glance left and see the universe, and realise for a moment that you're holding on to your known existence with one hand. That's the thing.

Consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable.

Man’s consciousness not only reflects the objective world, but creates it.

Consciousness ... is the phenomenon whereby the universe's very existence is made known.

fundamentally an organism has conscious mental states if and only if there is something that it is like to be that organism--something it is like for the organism.

The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.

The images of things are not the things in themselves.

The actuality of all of material Nature is therefore kept out of action and that of all corporeality along with it, including the actuality of my body, the body of the cognizing subject.

I loved doing 'Dead Like Me.' That role was phenomenal to me.

A thousand years ago, scientists who wondered about consciousness and the nature of reality were burned at the stake. We still haven't recovered from that and it's left us with a culture that no longer investigates consciousness, except on the fringes.

Working with Jackie Chan was one of the most phenomenal experiences. I won't say that he is the most grounded actor, but he is the most grounded human being I have ever seen.

Consciousness is the feel of accessing memory.

It's sensational to be a part of a series that takes on a life of its own.

The making of 'Naked' was an absolutely phenomenal, mind-bending experience. That film was life-changing and put my career onto a whole different level.