“[Children are] like talking animals. Their consciousness is so different from ours that they constitute a different species. They don't have to be particularly interesting children; just the fact that they are children is sufficient. They don't know what anything is, so they have to make it up. No matter how dull they are, they still have to figure things out for themselves.” KnowsChildrenStillsDifferentMatterFactsAnimalInterestingConsciousnessTalkingFiguresSpeciesSufficientDull Author:Fran Lebowitz
“Actions are interesting to watch. I learn about the actors. Their movements are emblems of the tensions in this internal landscape, which their actions resolve. About-to-act is an interesting state to experience, because I am conscious of just those tensions. Acting itself feels fairly dull; it not only resolves, it obliterates those tensions from my consciousness. Acting is only interesting as it leads to new tensions that, irrelevantly, cause me to act again.” FeelsStatesActionActorsCausesInterestingActingConsciousnessWatchesMovementConsciousLandscapeTensionDullInternalsResolveEmblems Book:Dhalgren Source: Dhalgren
“By banning psychedelic research we have not only given up the study of an interesting drug or group of substances, but also abandoned one of the most promising approaches to the understanding of the human mind and consciousness.” MindHumansGivenUnderstandingInterestingConsciousnessStudyGroupsDrugApproachResearchSubstanceHuman MindAbandonedGiven UpPsychedelic Author:Stanislav Grof
“It isn't enough to have had an interesting or hilarious or tragic life. Art isn't anecdote. It's the consciousness we bring to bear on our lives. For what happened in the story to transcend the limits of the personal, it must be driven by the engine of what the story means.” MeanArtEnoughStoriesInterestingConsciousnessOur LivesHappenedBearsLimitsArt IsDrivenTragicEnginesAnecdotesTragic Life Book:Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There Source: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There
“What's most interesting about trying to figure out AI is the questions that it forces you to ask about the nature of consciousness.” TryingAsksForceNatureInterestingConsciousnessFiguresMost Interesting Author:Oscar Isaac
“I think it's interesting, from a creative point of view, to have witnessed the loss of consciousness on a national level and on a cultural level - Bush had 91 percent support in the polls after 9/11. We wanted to kick some ass!” ThinkingWantedLossInterestingLevelsViewsConsciousnessSupportCreativePercentPoint Of ViewAssKicksPolls Author:Aleksandar Hemon
“Another thing that's good about writing to describe a situation or a state of consciousness is that you can finally get it right. That was my intention, and that's always interesting.” WritingStatesInterestingConsciousnessSituationIntentionStates Of Consciousness Author:Richard Hell
“It's very interesting to think about the distinction with mind, which I just made in very general terms, but it can be made more profound when we think that there are many species, many creatures on earth that are very likely to have a mind, but are very unlikely to have a consciousness in the sense that you and I have.” ThinkingMindMadeEarthTermInterestingConsciousnessCreaturesProfoundSpeciesDistinctionUnlikelyVery Interesting Author:Antonio Damasio
“[Regarding] the soul, I'm a little wary of any discourse on that topic that pretends to have an answer, so I tend to keep my musings to myself. There is interesting, legitimate metaphysical work on the topic going at least as far back as Leibniz and continuing today, following the theme that consciousness, or at least computation, might be at least as fundamental as phenomena such as space, time, energy, and matter, which are the usual subject matter of physics. I follow that sort of thing with interest but with very modest expectations that answers will be arrived at during my lifetime.” LittlesSoulMatterMightTodayEnergyInterestSpaceAnswersInterestingConsciousnessSubjectsExpectationsFundamentalsLifetimeFollowingPhysicsThemeUsualContinuingModestDiscourseTopicsMetaphysicalSubject MatterMusingsSpace TimeComputation Author:Neal Stephenson
“There has been a change in consciousness that makes this one of the most interesting periods of American history, maybe the most interesting. There's a loss of belief in the corporate system; there's a recognition that something is fundamentally wrong, So there's an opening to a whole different vision of where to go forward. I think that's where we are in the question, so let's not blow it; let's see what we can develop over time.” ThinkingHas BeensDifferentWholeBeliefLossInterestingConsciousnessVisionPeriodsBlowOpeningRecognitionCorporateAmerican HistoryMost Interesting Author:Gar Alperovitz
“It's very interesting to read why Cornelius Cardew became disenchanted with academic avant-garde music. He wanted to reach as many people as possible and change their consciousness. He wanted to reach the "working classes" in England. The kind of music he was making was very much from the academy, even though it had a lot in common with things like free jazz and improvisation, and he felt that it was the music of the elite, and that he wasn't really speaking to the people.” PeopleKindInterestingCommonConsciousnessJazzAcademicWorking ClassVery InterestingImprovisation Author:Alasdair MacLean
“I'm very interested in the question of how we perceive something, how consciousness goes from one thing, like looking at you in your black hat to what it might mean to my imagination and how I would draw that or write that, how I would subjectify you? It's something that is endlessly interesting to me.” WritingMeanBlackImaginationInterestingConsciousnessPerceiveMy Imagination Author:Hilton Als
“Translated literature can be fascinating. There's something so intriguing about reading the text second hand - a piece of prose that has already been through an extra filter, another consciousness, in the guise of the translator. Some of my favorite writers who have written in English were doing so without English being their first language, so there's a sense of distance or of distortion there, too. Conrad. Nabokov. These writers were employing English in interesting ways.” ReadingLiteratureLanguageInterestingConsciousnessDistanceMy FavoriteExtrasProseIntriguingTranslators Author:Katie Kitamura
“It's always an interesting question of what was it like as Norman Mailer's son because I could easily turn it back and say what's it like not to. I didn't always realize my dad was Norman Mailer. I always knew he was Dad, and then I forget the exact age when it dawned on me that, you know, he is actually someone who affects the public consciousness of the time. It was amazing. I mean he was a rock star and brilliant and kind and funny and generous and scary when he needed to be and, you know, hard as a father.” KindMeanAgeFatherRealizingForgetInterestingConsciousnessSonDadMy DadScaryBrilliantGenerousRock Star Author:John Buffalo Mailer