Samuel Butler Quotes

If there were nothing but thought in you, you wouldn't even know you are thinking. You would be like a dreamer who doesn't know he is dreaming. When you know you are dreaming, you are awake within the dream.

Thinking is only a small aspect of consciousness. Thought cannot exist without consciousness, but consciousness does not need thought

We havent really paid much attention to thought as a process. we have engaged in thoughts, but we have only paid attention to the content, not to the process.

Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.

There's a constant drip and trickle of life that goes into one's awareness really and consciousness of things.

Direct thy attention to what is said. Let thy understanding enter into the things that are doing and the things which do them.

First Sight means you can see what really is there, and Second Thoughts mean thinking about what you are thinking. And in Tiffany's case, there were sometimes Third Thoughts and Fourth Thoughts although these...sometimes led her to walk into doors.

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

Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning.

How do you know, right now, that you are aware of being aware, or conscious?

Life is but thought.

The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

I'm a thinker.

What's more valuable - intelligence or consciousness?

It's all real and it's all illusory: that's Awareness!

Every thought is an afterthought.

Thought is a man in his wholeness, wholly attending.

I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.

While you are looking, you might as well also listen, linger and think about what you see.

How alive is thought, invisible, yet without thought there is no sight.

The realm of consciousness is much vaster than thought can grasp. When you no longer believe everything you think, you step out of thought and see clearly that the thinker is not who you are.

All consciousness is consciousness of something

It's you who are telling me; opening my eyes to things I'd looked at so long that I'd ceased to see them.

To meditate is to labour; to think is to act.