“Memoirists, unlike fiction writers, do not really want to 'tell a story.' They want to tell it all - the all of personal experience, of consciousness itself. That includes a story, but also the whole expanding universe of sensation and thought ... Memoirists wish to tell their mind. Not their story.” WantMindWholeStoriesUniverseWishConsciousnessFictionSensationsExpandingPersonal ExperiencesFiction WritersExpanding Universe Author:Patricia Hampl
“In ordinary speech the words perception and sensation tend to be used interchangeably, but the psychologist distinguishes. Sensations are the items of consciousness--a color, a weight, a texture--that we tend to think of as simple and single. Perceptions are complex affairs that embrace sensation together with other, associated or revived contents of the mind, including emotions.” ThinkingMindTogetherUsedSimpleEmotionConsciousnessColorSpeechPerceptionOrdinaryWeightEmbraceComplexesIncludingAffairSensationsItemsTexturePsychologist Author:Jacques Barzun
“Happiness is not something you have in your hands; it's something you carry in your heart. Happiness is one thing that multiplies by division. Happiness is that peculiar sensation you acquire when you are too busy to be miserable. Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.” HeartStatesHandsValuesConsciousnessOne ThingAchievementBusyMiserableAcquireDivisionSensationsPeculiarToo BusyStates Of Consciousness Author:Ayn Rand
“One of the many conditions that have to be met for a brain to become a mind, and therefore have consciousness, is 'the analog I' around which all the simultaneous inflow of sensations and stimulations are reflected and organized.” MindBrainConsciousnessConditionsMetsOrganizedSensationsStimulationSimultaneousAnalog Author:Aleksandar Hemon
“It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.” WorldLooksSoulSelfEyeConsciousnessPitySensationsContemptPeculiarTapeSelf PityAmusedMeasuringThrough The EyesScotch Tape Author:W. E. B. Du Bois