Andrew W.K. Quotes

I do not comprehend all that I am. Is the mind, therefore, too limited to possess itself?

Don’t see the mind for more than it is, but don’t misread it for all that it can be.

The mind is a strange and wonderful thing. I'm not sure it'll ever be able to figure itself out. Everything else maybe, from the atom to the universe, everything except itself.

I only know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good.

One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.

At times I think and at times I am.

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

There was a young man who said though, it seems that I know that I know, but what I would like to see is the I that knows me when I know that I know that I know.

Knowing who you are begins in the mind.

When the mind sees itself in the mirror of relationship, from that perception there is self-knowledge.

The criterion and rule of the true is to have made it. Accordingly, our clear and distinct idea of the mind cannot be a criterion of the mind itself, still less of other truths. For while the mind perceives itself, it does not make itself.

The walls of rude minds are scrawled all over with facts, with thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read the inscriptions.

Sometimes I think, sometimes I am .

I'm you and you are me. I'm a man and you're a man. When people understand the more they know Self, the real Inner Self of themselves it's the same physical structure you've got. The same things you deal with I deal with. Everything derives from the mind. What's funny is the mind is the hardest question and I guess that's why I'm always writing about it.

we are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason. but we cannot just walk into the cavern and look around. most of what we think we know about our minds is pseudo-knowledge. we are all such shocking poseurs, so good at inflating the importance of what we think we value.

A conscious mind is a mind with a self in it.

We are one of only three species on our planet that can claim to be self-aware, yet self-delusion may be a more significant characteristic of our kind.

We have been so blinded by thinking and feeling that we have never seen the World.

The mind aware of itself is a pilot... vastly freer than a passenger mind.

If man should commence by studying himself, he would see how impossible it is to go further.

The normal self is the mind. The mind is with limitations. But pure Consciousness is beyond limitations, and is reached by investigation into the "I."

You don't need to condemn. Just observe, That is sin. That is insanity. That is unconsciousness. Above all, don't forget to observe your own mind. Seek out the root of the insanity there.

If we are to know ourselves, philosophy needs to maintain an ongoing dialogue with the sciences of mind.

All too often, when it comes to our own minds, we are surprisingly mindless. We sail on, blithely unaware of how much we are missing, of how little we grasp of our own thought process - and how much better we could be if only we'd taken the time to understand and to reflect.

When you start meditating on your ego, on your thoughts, on your mind, you are suddenly separate, because whatsoever you meditate on, you are separate from it. That has become the object and you have become the subject.