Quotes About Consciousness

El sueño es la peor de las cocaínas, por ser la más natural de todas.

I do not sleep. I half-exist.

Whatever I feel is felt against my will so that I can write that I felt it.

The entire life of the human soul is mere motions in the shadows. We live in a twilight of consciousness, never in accord with whom we are or think we are …

To pretend is to know oneself.

Flashes of awareness that we live an illusion – that, and no more, is what distinguishes the greatest of men.

I've already seen everything I've never seen. I've already seen everything I haven't yet seen.

I was a citizen. At the heart of my thoughts I wasn't I.

To realize I don't remember myself means that I've woken up.

Everything, for us, is in our concept of the world. To modify our concept of the world is to modify the world for us, or simply to modify the world, since it will never be, for us, anything but what it is for us.

No, we don't feel anything. We consciously pass through the door we have to enter, and the fact we have to enter it is enough to put us to sleep.

other? We look at each other without seeing. We listen to each other and hear only a voice inside ourself.

Pero ¿de verdad vivimos? Vivir sin saber qué es la vida, ¿será vivir?.

Hissetmek- ne renktir acaba?

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.

We may be guided by an illusion, but one thing is sure, it is not our consciousness that guides us.

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.

Life would be intolerable if we were conscious of it. Happily, we are not. We live with the same unconsciousness as animals, in the same futile vain way, and if we think in advance about death (which they, in all probability, without being dogmatic do not do), we think about it through the veils of so many oblivions, so many distractions and meanderings, that it can hardly be said we think about it at all.

Note that the art of dreaming is not the art of directing our dreams. To direct is to act. The true dreamer surrenders to himself, is possessed by himself.

soy del tamaño de lo que veo y no del tamaño de mi estatura»

If I was reincarnated, it was without myself, without my I.

Los clasificadores de cosas, que son aquellos hombres de ciencia cuya ciencia consiste sólo en clasificar, ignoran, en general, que lo clasificable es infinito y por lo tanto no se puede clasificar. Pero en lo que consiste mi pasmo es en que ignoren la existencia de clasificables desconocidos, cosas del alma y de la conciencia que se encuentran en los intersticios del conocimiento.

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

If only one had not learned from birth onwards, to give certain accepted meanings to everything, but instead was able to see the meaning inherent in each thing rather than that imposed on it from without.