Quotes About Consciousness

Man is above all else mind, consciousness -- that is, he is a product of history, not of nature.

Is it better to work out consciously and critically one's own conception of the world and thus, in connection with the labours of one's own brain, choose one's sphere of activity, take an active part in the creation of the history of the world, be one's own guide, refusing to accept passively and supinely from outside the moulding of one' own personality?

Man would be "otherwise." That's the essence of the specifically human.

I've caught a glimpse of him in dreams: expert hunter of himself, every minute in ambush.

El ojo que ves no es ojo porque tú lo veas, es ojo porque te ve.

Ayer soñé que veía a Dios y que a Dios hablaba; y soñé que Dios me oía... Después soñé que soñaba.

Tras el vivir y el soñar, está lo que más importa: despertar.

Between living and dreaming there is a third thing. Guess it.

Death is something we shouldn't fear because, while we are, death isn't, and when death is, we aren't.

No my soul is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. It neither sleeps nor dreams, but watches, its clear eyes open, far-off things, and listens at the shores of the great silence.

Tal vez las cosas han de ser primero soñadas para fijarse en la memoria.

Era asombrosa la amplitud de lo que uno mismo era capaz de no ver tan solo empeñándose en una ceguera más rigurosa todavía porque era voluntaria.

Human suffering, while it is asleep, is shapeless. If it is wakened it takes the form of the waker.

A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence.

We become aware of the void as we fill it.

When I am asleep I dream what I dream when I am awake. It's a continuous dream.

When I die, I will not see myself die, for the first time.

Because the brain is the body's captive audience, feelings are winners among equals. And

Listen, my dear, she said, this can't go on, you can't live in two worlds at once, in the world of reality and the world of dreams, that kind of thing leads to hallucinations, you're like a sleepwalker walking through a landscape with your arms outstretched, and everything you touch becomes part of your dream, even me, a fat old woman weighing one hundred seventy-five, I can feel myself dissolving into the air at the touch of your hand, as if I was becoming part of your dream too.

E per riaddormentarmi penso che ti scriverei che non sapevo che il tempo non aspetta, davvero non lo sapevo, non si pensa mai che il tempo è fatto di gocce, e basta una goccia in più perché il liquido si sparga per terra e si allarghi a macchia e si perda.

A person who is awakened has only saddened

A person whose mind is actually dismantled does not realise that MENTAL also means INTELLECTUAL.

People should think before they say because often things start taking shape in their life in the very same way.

People who are in deep slumber are in humongous number and this is due to their self-centered nature only.