Quotes About Self-awareness

Se me ocurre que pensar, sentir, querer, también pueden ser estancamientos ante un pensar más íntimo, un sentir más mío, una voluntad perdida en alguna parte del laberinto de lo que realmente soy.

Most men spontaneously live a fictitious, alien life. Most people are other people, said Oscar Wilde, and he was quite right.

The truly wise man is the one who can keep external events from changing him in any way. To do this, he covers himself with an armour of realities closer to him than the world's facts and through which the facts, modified accordingly, reach him.

Pero no me engaño, escribo, sumo, y la escritura sigue, como hecha por un empleado cualquiera de esta casa.

What we see isn't what we see but what we are.

I know nothing greater, nor more worthy of the truly great man, than the patient and expressive analysis of the ways in which we don't know ourselves, the conscious recording of the unconsciousness of our conscious states, the metaphysics of autonomous shadows, the poetry of the twilight

irony. I know nothing greater, nor more worthy of the truly great man, than the patient and expressive analysis of the ways in which we don't know ourselves, the conscious recording of the unconsciousness of our conscious states, the metaphysics of autonomous shadows, the poetry of the twilight of disillusion.

Yes, my particular virtue of being very often objective, and thus sidetracked from thinking about myself, suffers lapses of affirmation, as do all virtues and even all vices.

To pretend is to know oneself.

Living in a sweet, fluid state of ignorance about all things and about oneself is the only way of life guaranteed to suit and bring comfort to the sage.

Porque soy del tamaño de lo que veo y no del tamaño de mi altura. Frases como estas, que parecen crecer sin voluntad que las hubiera dicho, me limpian de toda la metafísica que añado a mi vida. Después de leerlas, me acerco a mi ventana sobre la calle estrecha, observo el vasto cielo y los muchos astros y soy libre con un esplendor alado cuya vibración me estremece el cuerpo entero.

To be lucid is to be indisposed towards oneself. The only legitimate state of mind when looking inside oneself is that of someone who sees only nerves and indecisions.

Man should not be able to see his own face. Nothing is more terrible than that. Nature gave him the gift of being unable either to see his face or to look into his own eyes. He could only see his own face in the waters of rivers and lakes. Even the posture he had to adopt to do so was symbolic. He had to bend down, to lower himself, in order to commit the ignominy of seeing his own face. The creator of the mirror poisoned the human soul.

I've never known if it was my sensibility that was too much for my intelligence, or my intelligence that was too much for my sensibility. I've always been late, I'm not sure if for the former or for the latter, or perhaps for both, or perhaps it was the third thing that was late.

Poseemos algo? Si ni siquiera sabemos lo que somos, ¿cómo hemos de saber lo que poseemos?

So many times, so many, like now, it has oppressed me to feel myself feel – to feel anguish just because it's a feeling, restlessness because I'm here, nostalgia for something I've never known, the sunset of all emotions, myself yellowing, subdued to grey sadness in my external selfawareness.

It is noble to be shy, illustrious not to know how to act, great not to have a gift for living.

Convivir es morir. Para mí, sólo mi autoconsciencia es real; los demás son fenómenos inciertos en esa conciencia, y sería enfermizo prestarles una realidad muy verdadera.

Irony is the first sign that our consciousness has become conscious, and it passes through two stages: the one represented by Socrates, when he says, 'All I know is that I know nothing,' and the other represented by Sanches,* when he says, 'I don't even know if I know nothing.

I'm two people who mutually keep their distance — Siamese twins living separate lives.

O que devera humilhar-me é a minha bandeira, que desfraldo; e o riso com que deveria rir de mim, é um clarim com que saúdo e gero uma alvorada em que me faço.

Saber interponerse constantemente entre uno mismo y las cosas es el grado más alto de sabiduría y prudencia.

Ä°ki kiÅŸiyim ben - ikisi de ortalar?ndaki mesafeyi koruyor, aralar?nda hiçbir baÄŸ olmayan Siyam ikizleri bunlar.

L?udat fie Domnul pentru faptul c? nu sunt bun, Åži c? am egoismul natural al florilor Sau al râurilor ce îÅŸi urmeaz? calea Preocupate f?r? s?-ÅŸi de-a seama Doar s? înfloreasc? sau s? curg? la vale. Iat? singura misiune pe-aceast? lume, Asta ÅŸi numai asta- adic? a exista cât se poate de clar, Åži a ÅŸti s? o faci f?r? s? te gândeÅŸti c? exiÅŸti.