Quotes About Consciousness

one I had— The feeling of a fiction collapsing inside you. A fiction you'd forgotten was there.

It's like there is a video game inside his head except what happens there will happen here.

the more profound the statement, the more reversible; the deep truths are sedimented in syntax, the terms can be reversed, just as there is no principle of noncontradiction, no law of excluded middle, governing the unconscious. Then, briefly serious, Klaus would touch my shoulder: A quote like that can save your life.

Perhaps they didn't know they were at sea. Was there a certain percentage of people at sea who lacked the knowledge that they were at sea?

An inner darkness is darker than an outer darkness.

Knowledge of self ought to be the great project of our lives. Knowing ourselves we will know others. Only by knowing ourselves can we begin to undo the madness we unleash on the world in our wars, our destruction of the environment, our divisions, our desire to dominate others, the poverty we create and exploit. Only through self-knowledge can we reverse the damage we do with all the worldly knowledge we have, which has been only a higher ignorance.

That you see a star in the night sky does not mean that the star sees you. The universe does not mirror consciousness. Consciousness mirrors the universe.

Wars are not fought on battlegrounds but in a space smaller than the head of a needle.

If they are awake while everyone else was sleeping, what on earth were they doing?

You take every day for granted. That for you is real. But if you stop taking it for granted it becomes unreal. Unreality makes the work real. If you remember how unreal the world is, you will be fine

I showed you that it is unreality that makes the world real. ' 'I don't understand' 'You take every day for granted. That for you is real. But if you stop taking it for granted it becomes unreal. Unreality makes the world real. If you remember how unreal the world is, you will be fine

When you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are.

We can redream this world and make the dream come real. Human beings are gods hidden from themselves.

Although my parents always treated Lennie Mae respectfully, I was aware of the social distinctions between us, probably in part because Lennie Mae herself was so aware of those distinctions.

When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.

God is a thing that thinks.

And when he dreams he does not want to write, he does not have the power to dream he wants to write; and when he dreams he wants to write, he does not have the power to dream he does not want to write.

It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.

Verdaderamente —decía él—, ¿por qué no ha de ser una cosa más real que la otra?¿Por qué no ha de ser sueño lo del día y vida efectiva lo de la noche? Es cuestión de nombres y de que diéramos en llamar dormir a lo que llamamos despertar, y acostarse al levantarse...

Un soplo, un rayo de luz, una sensación bastarían para animar la hermosa piedra, que teniendo ya todas las galas de la forma, carecía tan sólo de la conciencia de su propia belleza, la cual emana de la facultad de conocer la belleza exterior.

No conozco el mundo más que por el pensamiento, el tacto y el oído.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

I may not be quite a real being. Je ne suis peut-être pas tout à fait un être réel.

El amor sustituye la falta de recuerdos de un modo casi mágico. Todos los demás afectos necesitan el pasado: el amor crea un pasado como por encantamiento y nos rodea de él. Nos da, por así decirlo, la conciencia de haber vivido durante años con un ser que no hace mucho nos resultaba casi extraño. El amor es sólo un punto luminoso, y sin embargo parece apoderarse del tiempo.