Quotes About Consciousness

Without knowing the Knower, all the knowledge that one gathers cannot be valid.

The essence of knowledge is self-knowledge.

You can only be afraid of what you think you know.

Only the subject's individual consciousness can testify for the unwitnessed acts, and there is no act more deprived of external testimony than the act of knowing.

When mind knows, we call it knowledge. When heart knows, we call it love. And when being knows, we call it meditation.

Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.

There are only two kinds of certain knowledge: Awareness of our own existence and the truths of mathematics.

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

Only the knowledge that comes from inside is the real Knowledge

We could all be mediums, and all have absolute knowledge, if the bright light of our ego consciousness would not dim it.

supongo que fue la sensación de estar siendo doble sujeto o doble gË™e·bry¯d-guma al mismo tiempo —una sensación desasosegante— lo que me hizo pensar más lejos

Javier Marías

Es la forma de nuestra muerte lo que debemos cuidar, y para cuidarla debemos cuidar nuestra vida, porque será ésta, sin ser nada en sí cuando cese y sea sustituida, lo único que sin embargo será capaz de hacernos saber al final si morimos como un imbécil o si morimos aceptablemente

se puede estar bebido de tantas formas como se puede estar sobrio.

Nosce te ipsum —la corregí, conteniendo otra risotada—. Significa «conócete a ti mismo».

We are not dead!" He could hear the smile, even in her answering yell. "Certainly we are. It is only that our bodies have not yet learned the truth.

It is possible to refine awareness itself so much that the emptiness of things, and the role mental construction plays, becomes a directly apprehended reality.

To me, God is a name that humans give to all that is. Experientially, it is whatever is left over when the delusion of the self is taken away.

For the Buddha of the Pali Canon, the goal is liberation: the cessation of suffering, the end of the endless hamster-wheel of dependent origination, of mental formations leading to desire leading to clinging leading to suffering and so on. Nibbana, or nirvana, was not originally conceived as some magical heavenly world, or even a permanent altered state of consciousness. It is usually described, in the early texts, negatively: as a candle being snuffed out.

Consciousness is a dance between perception and memory.

Animals have no unconscious, because they have a territory. Men have only had an unconscious since they lost a territory.

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

There are but three events in a man's life: birth, life and death. He is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.

There are only three events in a man's life birth, life, and death he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.