Quotes About Consciousness

The workman of today works every day in his life at the same tasks, and this fate is no less absurd. But it is tragic only at the rare moments when it becomes conscious. Sisyphus, proletarian of the gods, powerless and rebellious, knows the whole extent of his wretched condition: it is what he thinks of during his descent. The lucidity that was to constitute his torture at the same time crowns his victory. There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

When we speak the word "life," it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Baz? bilinçler vard?r ki, basit bir çeliÅŸki yüzünden kendilerini öldürebilirler ve bunun için de deli, saptanm?? ve kataloÄŸa girmiÅŸ bir deli olmak gerekmez; tersine, saÄŸl?kl? olmak ve akl? kendi taraf?nda bulundurmak yeterlidir.

Postoji u meni nešto užasno, što raste i što ne poti?e od mene samog, ve? iz mrakova koje nosim u sebi, što poti?e odande gde ?ovekova duša ne zna gde po?inje a gde se završava njegovo Ja, niti šta ga je nateralo da zapo?ne onako kako misli da je zapo?eo.

Les asiles d'aliénés sont des réceptacles de magies noire, conscients et prémédités.

We all woke up this morning and we had with it the amazing return of our conscious mind. We recovered minds with a complete sense of self and a complete sense of our own existence — yet we hardly ever pause to consider this wonder.

I sense that stepping into the light is also a powerful metaphor for consciousness, for the birth of the knowing mind, for the simple and yet momentous coming of the sense of self into the world of the mental.

Present continuously becomes past, and by the time we take stock of it we are in another present, consumed with planning the future, which we do on the stepping-stones of the past. The present is never here. We are hopelessly late for consciousness.

The starting-point of critical elaboration is the consciousness of what one really is, and is 'knowing thyself' as a product of the historical processes to date, which has deposited in you an infinity of traces, without leaving an inventory.

The starting-point of critical elaboration is the consciousness of what one really is, and is "knowing thyself" as a product of the historical process to date which has deposited in you an infinity of traces, without leaving an inventory. The first thing to do is to make such an inventory.

Ma questa non è cultura, è pedanteria, non è intelligenza, ma intelletto, e contro di essa ben a ragione si reagisce. La cultura è una cosa ben diversa. È organizzazione, disciplina del proprio io interiore, è presa di possesso della propria personalità, è conquista di coscienza superiore, per la quale si riesce a comprendere il proprio valore storico, la propria funzione nella vita, i propri diritti e i propri doveri.

Illusion is the most tenacious weed in the collective consciousness; history teaches, but it has no pupils.

Stato significa specialmente direzione consapevole delle grandi moltitudini nazionali; è quindi necessario un contatto sentimentale e ideologico con tali moltitudini e, in una certa misura, simpatia e comprensione dei loro bisogni e delle loro esigenze.

The self is a repeatedly reconstructed biological state.

Mario mantuvo su mirada en los ojos de ella y durante medio minuto intentó que su cerebro lo dotara de las informaciones mínimas para sobrevivir el trauma que lo oprimía: quién soy, dónde estoy, cómo se respira, cómo se habla.

it's a theory advanced by two French philosophers who are also psychologists, they hold that we do not have a single soul but a confederation of souls guided by a ruling ego, and every now and then this ruling ego changes, so that although we establish a norm it isn't a stable norm, but a variable one.

The question caught me off guard.

I was standing in the shower the other day, picking up my shampoo," she said. "It's called 'Dumb Blonde.' I thought, Thirty years ago you could not have sold this. I think we have lost consciousness of the way our culture demeans women.

La esperanza es el sueño del hombre despierto

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.

A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence.

Nothing is what rocks dream about

For the activity of the mind is life