Quotes About Consciousness

The worst type of man behaves as badly in his waking life as some men do in their dreams.

SOCRATES: What evidence could be appealed to, supposing we were asked at this very moment whether we are asleep or awake? THEAETETUS: Indeed, Socrates, I do not see by what evidence it is to be proved; for the two conditions correspond in every circumstance like exact counterparts.

The good is twice described in the Philebus as perfect, self- sufficient and seeked by all conscious beings. And the good does not have a contrary: it is not the one end of a scale whose evil would be the other end; it is a measure on any scale. Taken from Bernard Suzanne Plato and his dialogues Pursuing Goodness or the Good. Updated Nov 21, 1998

deÄŸeri olan bir kimse yaÅŸayacak m?y?m yoksa ölecek miyim diye düÅŸünmemelidir. bir iÅŸ görürken yaln?zca doÄŸru mu eÄŸri mi, yürekli bir insan gibi mi yoksa tabans?zca m? davrand???n? düÅŸünmelidir.

Know thyself.

Ali,srecnice moj,mozda sam ja nista,a ti to ne primecujes.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

Cei str?ini de filosofie au toate ÅŸansele s? nu-ÅŸi dea seama c? de fapt singura preocupare a celor care i se d?ruiesc cu adev?rat este trecerea în moarte ÅŸi starea care îi urmeaz?.

No estoy distante de definir la sabiduría como el conocimiento de sí mismo, y de hecho soy de la misma opinión del que colocó en el templo de Delfos una inscripción de este género: «Conócete a ti mismo».

I should not be surprised that Euripides' lines are true when he says: 'But who knows whether being alive is being dead And being dead is being alive?

But can that which does not exist have anything pertaining or belonging to it? Of course not. Then the one has no name, nor is there any description or knowledge or perception or opinion of it....And it is neither named nor described nor thought of nor known, nor does any existing thing perceive it.

Now, if the truth of things is always in our soul, the soul is immortal.

What do you experience on perceiving yourselves lovely within?

The sphere of sense, the Soul in its slumber; for all of the Soul that is in body is asleep and the true getting-up is not bodily but from the body: in any movement that takes the body with it there is no more than passage from sleep to sleep, from bed to bed.

We must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing...a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all, though few put it to use.

To set oneself above intellect is immediately to fall outside it.

Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.

If you find yourself imitating another writer, that doesn't have to be a bad thing, especially if you are a young or a new writer. However, you should be conscious of exactly how you are imitating him - word choice, sentence structure, motifs? - and think about why you're doing it.

My grandmother told me you shouldn't try to define evil, that the minute you think you've got it all pinned down, a kind of evil you never even thought of will sneak up behind you and jump inside your head. I don't think anyone knows what evil is. I don't think anyone has the right to say.

AS WE THINK, SO WE ARE;

For good or evil, we are a single people: the more we become conscious of this, the less difficult and long will be humanity's progress toward justice and peace.

Se comprendere è impossibile, conoscere è necessario, perché ciò che è accaduto, può ritornare, le coscienze possono nuovamente essere sedotte e oscurate: anche le nostre.

Suicide is an act of man and not of the animal.

Pensavo molte cose insensate, e non pensavo alcune cose tristemente sensate.