“Our mind is the foundation of all our actions, whether they are actions of body, speech, or mind, i.e., thinking. Whatever we think, say, or do arises from our mind. What our consciousness consumes becomes the substance of our life, so we have to be very careful which nutriments we ingest.” ThinkingMindBodyMotivationalActionConsciousnessOur LivesSpeechFoundationCarefulAriseSubstanceOur Actions Author:Nhat Hanh
“Writing seems to rob me of my being: it is a second hand mode of communication, a pallid, mechanical transcript of speech, and so always at one remove from my consciousness.” WritingHandsSeemsConsciousnessCommunicationSpeechRemoveSecond Hand Book:Literary Theory: An Introduction Source: Literary Theory: An Introduction
“The average Southerner has the speech patterns of someone slipping in and out of consciousness. I can change my shoes and socks faster than most people in Mississippi can speak a sentence.” PeopleI CanSpeakConsciousnessSpeechShoesAveragePatternsSentencesFasterSockMississippiSlippingSoutherner Book:The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America Source: The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America
“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
“To dine, drink champagne, raise a racket and make speeches about the people's consciousness, the people's conscience, freedom andso forth while servants in tails are scurrying around your table, just like serfs, and out in the severe cold on the street await coachmen--this is the same as lying to the holy spirit.” PeopleSpiritLyingConsciousnessStreetsColdDrinkHolySpeechConscienceRaisesTablesSlaveryServantHoly SpiritHypocrisyTailsSevereChampagneRacketDineSerfs Author:Anton Chekhov
“How can you have in our country that is based upon liberality and liberation, be so anti-liberal. That's toxic waste to our consciousness. It's hard to be an American conservative because that's a contradiction in terms. Now if you take away freedom of speech, freedom of press, freedom of protest, and lock people out based upon their race, their language and their religion, that's conservative and fascist. America is a liberal idea.” PeopleIfsIdeasCountryHardAmericaLanguageTermRaceConsciousnessSpeechWastePressesConservativeOur CountryLiberationContradictionProtestToxicFreedom Of SpeechLocksFascistsFreedom Of The PressLiberalityToxic WasteAnti Liberal Author:Jesse Jackson
“But can one not conceive of a presence, and of a presence to itself of the subject before speech or signs, a presence to itself of the subject in a silent and intuitive consciousness? Such a question therefore presupposes that, prior to the sign, and outside it, excluding any trace and any différance, something like consciousness is possible.” ConsciousnessSubjectsSpeechSilentIntuitive Author:Jacques Derrida
“Consciousness surely does not depend on language. Babies, many animals, and patients robbed of speech by brain damage are not insensate robots; they have reactions like ours that indicate that someone's home.” DoeHomeLanguageAnimalBrainConsciousnessBabyDependsSpeechPatientReactionsDamageRobots Author:Steven Pinker