Quotes About Consciousness

Life is legalized, consecrated absurdity.

But we are fundamentally, biologically unsuited to "understand.

no man concerned with his own equilibrium may exceed a certain degree of lucidity and analysis.

A r?mâne cu mintea întreag? e un privilegiu ce ne poate fi retras.

To exist is to profit by our share of unreality, to be quickened by each contact with the void that is within.

feeling of being everything and the evidence of being nothing.' I happened across this phrase in my youth, and was overwhelmed by it. Everything I felt in those days, and everything I would feel from then on, was summed up in this extraordinary banal formula, the synthesis of expansion and failure, ecstasy and impasse. Most often it is not in a paradox but in a truism that a revelation appears.

I feel I am free but I know I am not.

Everywhere I stumbled against future victims of the noose, against their imminent shadows: other men's lives wore no mystery for The One who scrutinized them through my eyes.

To shake people up, to wake them from their sleep, while knowing you are committing a crime and that it would be a thousand times better to leave them alone, since when they wake, too, you have nothing to offer them. . . .

There is life only in the inattention to life.

How difficult it is to dissolve oneself in Being!

The great systems are actually no more than brilliant tautologies. What advantage is it to know that the nature of being consists in the 'will to live,' in 'idea,' or in the whim of God or of Chemistry? A mere proliferation of words, subtle displacements of meanings. What is loathes the verbal embrace, and our innermost experience reveals us nothing beyond the privileged and inexpressible moment. Moreover, Being itself is only a pretension of Nothingness.

The most serious disadvantage a Christian encounters is that of not being able to serve consciously more than one god, though he has the latitude to adhere, in practice, to several (the worship of saints!). A salutary adherence which has permitted polytheism to continue, in spite of everything, indirectly. Without it, an excessively pure Christianity would not have failed to found a universal schizophrenia.

Man gives off a special odor: of all the animals, he alone smells of the corpse.

I breathe in my fashion.

todos los males de la vida vienen de una «concepción de la vida».

Mine still, this moment passes by, escapes me, and is buried forever. Am I going to commit myself with the next? I make up my mind: it is here, it belongs to me — and already is long since past. From morning to night, fabricating the past!

The salutary or awkward consequences of what he thinks matter little to the man who questions himself at hours when others are the prey of sleep.

Oamenii care interiorizeaz? nu pot lua faptele brute, nude sau moarte, ci le vitalizeaz?, le integreaz?, topindu-le într-un torent l?untric. ToÅ£i oamenii v?d focuri, furtuni, pr?buÅŸiri, peisaje; dar câÅ£i simt în ei fl?c?ri, tr?snete, vârtejuri sau armonii?

If with each word we win a victory over nothingness, it is only the better to endure its reign. We die in proportion to the words which we fling around us . . . Those who speak have no secrets. And we all speak. We betray ourselves, we exhibit our heart; executioner of the unspeakable, each of us labors to destroy all the mysteries, beginning with our own.

Maddenin d???nda, her ÅŸey müziktir. Tanr? bile sesli bir halüsinasyondan baÅŸka ÅŸey deÄŸildir.

Nihil est in intellectu quod non ante fuerit in sensu

The totality of beliefs and sentiments common to the average members of a society forms a determinate system with a life of its own. It can be termed the collective or creative consciousness.

Religion is in a word the system of symbols by means of which society becomes conscious of itself.