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Quotes About Consciousness

ÎnÅ£elese c? nici un destin nu-i mai bun decât altul, dar c? fiecare om trebuie s? dea ascultare celui pe care-l poart? în?untrul s?u.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Then I reflected that everything happens to a man precisely, precisely now. Centuries of centuries and only in the present do things happen; countless men in the air, on the face of the earth and the sea, and all that really is happening is happening to me.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
It was also possible that Villari was already dead, and then his life was a dream. That possibility disturbed him, because he couldn't quite figure out whether it felt like a relief or a misfortune; he told himself it was absurd, and he discarded it.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Yo soy el único espectador de esta calle; si dejara de verla se moriría
~ Jorge Luís Borges
I dream every night. I dream before I go to sleep, and I dream after waking up.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Biri dedi ki: Sen uyan?kl??a deÄŸil, önceki bir düÅŸe uyanm??s?n.O düÅŸ bir baÅŸka düÅŸle sarmall?d?r, o da bir baÅŸkas?yla ve bu böyle sonsuza kadar gider, sonsuz da kum tanelerinin say?s?d?r. Geriye dönerken izlemen gereken yolun sonu yoktur ve sen bir daha gerçekten uyanmadan öleceksin.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
He dreamt a complete man, a youth, but this youth could not rise nor did he speak nor could he open his eyes. Night after night, the man dreamt him as asleep.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
When I wake up, I wake up to something worse. It's the astonishment of being myself.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Mis sueños son como la vigilia de ustedes
~ Jorge Luís Borges
When the end draws near, there no longer remain any remembered images; only words remain.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Each moment we live exists, not the imaginary combination of these moments. A New Refutation of Time
~ Jorge Luís Borges
I shall be the other I am without knowing it.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
ÎnÈ›elese c? nici un destin nu-i mai bun decât altul, dar c? fiecare om trebuie s? dea ascultare celui pe care-l poart? înl?untrul s?u.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Blake wrote that if our senses did not work - if we were blind, deaf, etc. - we would see things as they are; infinite.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
while we sleep here, we are awake elsewhere and that in this way every man is two men.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
In its world, there are no names, nor past, nor future, only the sureness of the present moment.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
El olvido bien puede ser una forma profunda de la memoria.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Otra, que mientras dormimos aquí, estamos despiertos en otro lado y que así cada hombre es dos hombres.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Time is the substance of which I am
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Diecinueve años había vivido como quien sueña: miraba sin ver, oía sin oír, se olvidaba de todo, de casi todo.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
pensó, mientras alisaba el negro pelaje, que aquel contacto era ilusorio y que estaban como separados por un cristal, porque el hombre vive en el tiempo, en la sucesión, y el mágico animal, en la actualidad, en la eternidad del instante.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Esos recuerdos no eran simples; cada imagen visual estaba ligada a sensaciones musculares, térmicas, etcétera.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
One of the schools in Tlön has reached the point of denying time. It reasons that the present is undefined, that the future has no other reality than as present hope, that the past is no more than present memory.
~ Jorges Luis Borges
T]o know means to reach the reality of existing things[.]
~ Josef Pieper