Quotes About Consciousness

The man who does not see God may have vast knowledge of this or that section of being, but he is like a man who should know all about the eye never having seen a face.

We possess our being, the philosophers say, successively.

It's not God who doesn't care, it's us

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

Most men are not wicked... They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.

What's happened to me,' he thought. It was no dream.

Everyone carries a room about inside him. This fact can even be proved by means of the sense of hearing. If someone walks fast and one pricks up one's ears and listens, say in the night, when everything round about is quiet, one hears, for instance, the rattling of a mirror not quite firmly fastened to the wall.

4 December. To die would mean nothing else than to surrender a nothing to the nothing, but that would be impossible to conceive, for how could a person, even only as a nothing, consciously surrender himself to the nothing, and not merely to an empty nothing but rather to a roaring nothing whose nothingness consists only in its incomprehensibility.

You see, I have only such a fugitive awareness of things around me that I always feel they were once real and are now fleeting away.

That's how it will be, except that in reality, both today and later, one will stand there with a palpable body and a real head, a real forehead, that is, for smiting on with one's hand.

Ich schreibe anders als ich rede, ich rede anders als ich denke, ich denke anders als ich denken soll und so geht es weiter bis ins tiefste Dunkel.

How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room.

Looking on oneself as something alien, forgetting the sight, remembering the gaze.

We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.

Most men are not wicked. Men become bad and guilty because they speak and act without foreseeing the results of their words and their deeds. They are sleepwalkers, not evildoers.

I am a memory come alive, hence my insomnia.

Nem todos podem ver a verdade, mas podem sê-la.

Rolar infinitamente, os olhos fechados oferecendo-se a não sei que olhar aberto.

não sou a este respeito tão esquecido como outrora, sou uma memória que se tornou viva, e é uma das razões da minha insónia.

If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for.

He has the feeling that merely by being alive he is blocking his own way. From this sense of hindrance, in turn, he deduces the proof that he is alive.

To die would mean nothing else than to surrender a nothing to the nothing, but that would be impossible to conceive, for how could a person, even only as a nothing, consciously surrender himself to the nothing, and not merely to an empty nothing but rather to a roaring nothing whose nothingness consists only in its incomprehensibility.

Evil is an emanation of human consciousness at certain transitional points. It is not really the physical world that is illusion, but the Evil of it, which to our eyes constitutes, admittedly, the physical world.

So wird es sein, nur daß man auch in Wirklichkeit heute und später selbst dastehen wird, mit einem Körper und einem wirklichen Kopf, also auch einer Stirn, um mit der Hand an sie zu schlagen.