„The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.“

— Jean Paul Sartre

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„Thinking is only a small aspect of consciousness. Thought cannot exist without consciousness, but consciousness does not need thought“
— Eckhart Tolle
„If the world is eternally moving and developing matter (as the Marxists think), reflected by the developing human consciousness, what is there “static” here? The point at issue is not the immutable essence of things, or an immutable consciousness, but the correspondence between the consciousness which reflects nature and the nature which is reflected by consciousness.“
— Vladimir Lenin
„This thing up here, this consciousness, thinks it's running the shop. It's a secondary organ.“
— Joseph Campbell
„I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future.“
— Elon Musk
„If her past were your past, her pain your pain, her level of consciousness your level of consciousness, you would think and act exactly as she does. With this realization comes forgiveness, compassion, peace.“
— Eckhart Tolle
„A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.“
— Ludwig Wittgenstein