8 Alan Moore Quotes on Mind

Alan Moore quotes on mind

26. Consciousness is unquantifiable, a ghost in the machine, barely considered real at all, though in a sense this flickering mosaic of awareness is the only true reality that we can ever know.

27. The Here-and-Now demands attention, is more present to us. We dismiss the inner world of our ideas as less important, although most of our immediate physical reality originated only in the mind. The TV, sofa, clock and room, the whole civilisation that contains them once were nothing save ideas.

28. Material existence is entirely founded on a phantom realm of mind, whose nature and geography are unexplored.

31. Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception.

33. Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect.

39. Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.

44. The entire universe - for one thing - only exists in your perceptions. That's all you're gonna see of it. To all practical intents and purposes this is purely some kind of lightshow that's being put on in the kind of neurons in our brain. The whole of reality.

50. The one place in which gods and demons inarguably exist is in the human mind, where they are real in all their grandeur and monstrosity.