Quotes About Consciousness

Alas for the dreamer: the moment of consciousness that accompanies the awakening is the acutest of sufferings.

non era rassegnazione cosciente, ma il torpore opaco delle bestie domate con le percosse, a cui non dolgono più le percosse.

Get up": the illusory barrier of the warm blankets, the thin armor of sleep, the nightly evasion with its very torments drops to pieces around us, and we find ourselves mercilessly awake, exposed to insult, atrociously naked and vulnerable. A

Vai de cel ce viseaz?: momentul conÅŸtient care însoÅ£eÅŸte trezirea este cea mai grea suferin??. Dar nu ni se întâmpl? des ÅŸi nici visele nu sunt lungi: nu suntem decât niÅŸte animale obosite.

Si comprender es imposible, conocer es necesario, porque lo sucedido puede volver a suceder, las conciencias pueden ser seducidas y obnubiladas de nuevo: las nuestras también

Alas for the dreamer : the moment of consciousness that accompanies the awakening is the acutest of sufferings. But it does not often happen to us, and they are not long dreams. We are only tired beasts.

Ay de quien sueña: el momento de conciencia que acompaña al despertar es el sufrimiento más agudo

What you are, comes to you.

Nietzsche criticized the high esteem accorded to consciousness, particularly the consequences of Socrates' disastrous idea that 'everything must be conscious to be good.

I am my thoughts, but the sources of my thoughts exceed me. I do not own myself, because the darkness comes before me.

Sleep, when deep enough, is indistinguishable from vigilance.

Los pensamientos de todos los hombres surgen de la oscuridad. Si eres el movimiento de tu alma, y la causa de ese movimiento te precede, entonces, ¿cómo podrías llamar tuyos a tus pensamientos? ¿Cómo podrías ser otra cosa que un esclavo de la oscuridad que antecede a todo?

to observe a thing always is to observe a thing not at all.

Men, Kellhus had once told her, were like coins: they had two sides. Where one side of them saw, the other side of them was seen, and though all men were both at once, men could only truly know the side of themselves that saw and the side of others that was seen—they could only truly know the inner half of themselves and the outer half of others.

The happiest pillow on which you may rest your head is the knowledge of God's will. I cannot imagine a more miserable situation than consciously to be out of God's will.

Other world! There is no other world! Here or nowhere is the whole fact.

Nightmares aren't frightening once you wake up.

I noticed, but I didn't pay attention.

When you sleep, you give up the choice to control memory.

By acquiescing in an act that causes such suffering to a living creature, who among us is not diminished?

Most of us walk unseeing through the world, unaware alike of its beauties, its wonders, and the strange and sometimes terrible intensity of the lives that are being lived about us.

Carson's writing initiated a transformation in the relationship between humans and the natural world and stirred an awakening of public environmental consciousness. It

What else could I be? If I were a mono-thinker, I probably wouldn't be an insomniac. How is a poly-thinker supposed to fall asleep, and more importantly, stay asleep, when thoughts just won't stop darting! darting! darting! through my head?

I know it won't work and it doesn't work because some things you don't need to hear in order to hear. The mind has an ear of its own and sometimes memory is the fiercest fucking DJ alive.