Alan Moore Quotes About Consciousness

Quotes about: Consciousness

• 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.

  Alan Moore

  Spiritual, Perception, Consciousness

• I believe that magic is art, and that art, whether that be music, writing, sculpture, or any other form, is literally magic. Art is, like magic, the science of manipulating symbols, words or images, to achieve changes in consciousness… Indeed to cast a spell is simply to spell, to manipulate words, to change peoples consciousness, and this is why I believe that an artist or writer is the closest thing in the contemporary world to a shaman.

  Alan Moore

  Art, Believe, Writing

• Art is, like magic, the science of manipulating symbols, words or images to achieve changes in consciousness

  Alan Moore

  Art, Magic, Consciousness

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

  Alan Moore

  Firsts, Language, Consciousness

• Consciousness, unprovable by scientific standards, is forever, then, the impossible phantom in the predictable biologic machine, and your every thought a genuine supernatural event. Your every thought is a ghost, dancing.

  Alan Moore

  Dancing, Forever, Machines

• The only reality we can ever truly know is that of our perceptions, our own consciousness, while that consciousness, and thus our entire reality, is made of nothing but signs and symbols. Nothing but language. Even God requires language before conceiving the Universe. See Genesis: “In the beginning was the Word.

  Alan Moore

  Reality, Perception, Language

• Our consciousness, a startling outgrowth of the universe, is possibly its most important part, the fraction of existence that can think, feel, marvel at itself.

  Alan Moore

  Thinking, Important, Consciousness

• Do I believe, for example, that by using magic I could fly? No. How would you get around gravity? Impossible. Do I believe that I might be able to project my consciousness into a very, very vivid simulation of flying? Yeah. Yes, I've done that. Yes, that works.

  Alan Moore

  Believe, Flying, Magic

  "Alan Moore: why I turned my back on Hollywood". Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2012.

• I've come to think that the universe is a four-dimensional site in which nothing is changing and nothing is moving. The only thing that is moving along the time axis is our consciousness. The past is still there, the future has always been here. Every moment that has existed or will ever exist is all part of this giant hyper-moment of space-time.

  Alan Moore

  Moving, Past, Thinking

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