William S. Burroughs Quotes About Consciousness

Quotes about: Consciousness

• I meant that people will take anything that gives them a lift, whether it's alcohol or cocaine or the consciousness-expanding drugs or opiates. In Iran, until recently, they sold opium in shops legally, and they had 3,000,000 addicts in a population of 15,000,000. I don't believe that all those people were escaping from "complexes" or anything of the sort. They were simply exposed to it.

  William S. Burroughs

  Believe, Escaping, Iran

• I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events.

  William S. Burroughs

  God, Thinking, Religion

  Paris Review Fall 1965

• We are setting out to create new worlds, new beings, new modes of consciousness.

  William S. Burroughs

  World, Consciousness, Settings

  William S. Burroughs (2013). “The Adding Machine”, p.127, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• Like most qualities, cuteness is delineated by what it isn't. Most people aren't cute at all, or if so they quickly outgrow their cuteness ... Elegance, grace, delicacy, beauty, and a lack of self-consciousness: a creature who knows he is cute soon isn't.

  William S. Burroughs

  Cute, Cat, Self

• The consciousness-expanding drugs - the hallucinogens, such as cannabis, mescaline, LSD, Psylocybin - I think are useful to a writer up to a certain point. That is, they open psychic areas that would not otherwise be available to the writer. But I feel that once these areas have been opened and the writer has reached them, he is able to get back there in the future without the drug.

  William S. Burroughs

  Thinking, Psychics, Drug

  Source: www.stopsmilingonline.com

• I think if a writer is not endeavoring to expand and alter consciousness in himself and in his readers, he is not doing much of anything. It is precisely words, word lines, lines of words and images, and associations connected with these word and image lines in the brain, that keep you in present time, right where you are sitting now.

  William S. Burroughs

  Thinking, Brain, Sitting

  Source: www.stopsmilingonline.com

• I feel that the change, the mutation in consciousness, will occur spontaneously once certain pressures now in operation are removed. I feel that the principal instrument of monopoly and control that prevents expansion of consciousness is the word lines controlling thought, feeling and apparent sensory impressions of the human host.

  William S. Burroughs

  Feelings, Pressure, Expansion

  Source: realitystudio.org

• Man must get away from verbal forms to attain the consciousness, that which is there to be perceived at hand.

  William S. Burroughs

  Men, Hands, Consciousness

  Source: realitystudio.org

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