Quotes About Consciousness

The verb "to be" here means to generate your own presence, your real presence.

How utterly our past suffuses us. We live in all our days at once.

If the ability to tell right from wrong should have anything to do with the ability to think, then we must be able to 'demand' its exercise in every sane person no matter how erudite or ignorant.

What are we "doing" when we do nothing but think? Where are we when we, normally always surrounded by our fellow men, are together with no one but ourselves?

La pensée se dédouble entre pensée abstraite et jugement dès qu'elle fait intervenir le dialogue avec soi.

Comprehension, in short, means the unpremeditated, attentive facing up to, and resisting of, reality—whatever it may be or might have been.

A life without thinking is quite possible; it then fails to develop its own essence – it is not merely meaningless; it is not fully alive. Unthinking men are like sleepwalkers

Man, who has not been granted the gift of undoing, who is always an un-consulted heir of other men's deeds, and who is always burdened with a responsibility that appears to be the consequence of an unending chain of events rather than conscious acts, demands an explanation and interpretation of the past in which the mysterious key to his future destiny seems to be concealed.

Nothing we see or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given to the senses. Hegel was right when he pointed out that "the This of sense . . . cannot be reached by language"8 Was it not precisely the discovery of a discrepancy between words, the medium in which we think, and the world of appearances, the medium in which we live, that led to philosophy and metaphysics in the first place?

Weder dem Vergangenen anheimfallen noch dem Zukünftigen. Es kommt darauf an, ganz gegenwärtig zu sein.

the concept of happiness is present in us through a consciousness that is equated with memory (that is, since happiness is not an "innate" but a remembered idea), this "outside the human condition" actually means before human existence.

The modern discovery of history and historical consciousness owed one of its greatest impulses neither to a new enthusiasm for the greatness of man, his doings and sufferings, nor to the belief that the meaning of human existence can be found in the story of mankind, but to the despair of human reason, which seemed adequate only when confronted with man-made objects.

What I propose, therefore, is very simple: it is nothing more than to think what we are doing.

Uma vida sem pensamento é totalmente possível, mas ela fracassa em fazer desabrochar sua própria essência – ela não é apenas sem sentido; ela não é totalmente viva. Pessoas que não pensam são como sonâmbulos [...] Em nome de interesses pessoais, muitos abdicam do pensamento crítico, engolem abusos e sorriem para quem desprezam. Abdicar de pensar também é crime.

A soft noise from the woman on the bed pulled him free of his thoughts. Even as he straightened up to look at her face, her eyes opened. Cathal drew his breath in so sharply he nearly choked. Her eyes were the most beautiful eyes he had ever gazed into. They were an enticing mixture of blue and green, the color growing more dramatic as the haze of unconciousness fled. As

in a single instant, can the consciousness of the sin that has been committed in thoughts, words, and actions of our past life, be unfolded to us. When once the conscience is awakened, it springs up in the heart spontaneously, and God awakens the conscience when we least expect it. Then we can find no excuse for ourselves; the deed is there and bears witness against us.

I live in the same world as you do. I just see things that are outside the realm of understanding.

The humpback never sees the hump on his own back.

There are some places the mind should not go; it gets steered there anyway.

There were some night paths the mind was better off not traversing;

It's okay," Dee Dee said in the soothing voice of something still confusingly celestial. "Just stay still." He glanced past her as he swam back to full consciousness. Yep, he was still in the cult compound. The decor in the room was closer to nonexistent than austere. Nothing on the walls, no furniture in view. The walls were that same inescapable gray.

Many people are alive but don't touch the miracle of being alive.

We have these words 'space' and 'time,' but you can't touch them. They're not objects, they're not things, they go forever. Space and time are really tools of animal sense perception, the way we organize and construct information.

Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive - that you can touch the miracle of being alive - then that is a kind of enlightenment.