Charles Sanders Peirce Quotes About Consciousness

Quotes about: Consciousness

• The consciousness of a general idea has a certain "unity of the ego" in it, which is identical when it passes from one mind to another. It is, therefore, quite analogous to a person, and indeed, a person is only a particular kind of general idea.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Ideas, Ego, Unity

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1991). “Peirce on Signs: Writings on Semiotic”, p.229, UNC Press Books

• Our whole past experience is continually in our consciousness, though most of it sunk to a great depth of dimness. I think of consciousness as a bottomless lake, whose waters seem transparent, yet into which we can clearly see but a little way.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Past, Thinking, Lakes

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1931). “Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce”

• We may say that feelings have two kinds of intensity. One is the intensity of the feeling itself, by which loud sounds are distinguished from faint ones, luminous colors from dark ones, highly chromatic colors from almost neutral tints, etc. The other is the intensity of consciousness that lays hold of the feeling, which makes the ticking of a watch actually heard infinitely more vivid than a cannon shot remembered to have been heard a few minutes ago.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Dark, Color, Two

• I think of consciousness as a bottomless lake, whose waters seem transparent, yet into which we can clearly see but a little way.But in this water there are countless objects at different depths; and certain influences will give certain kinds of those objects an upward influence which may be intense enough and continue long enough to bring them into the upper visible layer. After the impulse ceases they commence to sink downwards.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Thinking, Lakes, Long

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1931). “Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce”

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