Quotes About Consciousness

Your mind and you are our Sargasso Sea.

Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

And so the space Of my still consciousness Is full of gilded snow, The which, no cat has eyes enough To see the brightness of. — Ezra Pound, from "Middle-Aged," Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, 1912–22 . Edited by Harriet Monroe. (Chicago, 1912–22)

Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.

If you happen to hold that human consciousness is no more than the epiphenomenon, or secretion, of our individual brains then you are more or less trapped in your own skull. But if consciousness is open, if it can partake in a more global form of being, if it can merge with the natural world and with other beings, then, indeed, it may be possible to drop, for a time, the constraints of one's personal worldview and see reality through the eyes of others.

The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Reality is what trips you up when you walk around with your eyes closed.

No man stops caring as long as he breathes. As long as he has a mind and memory, he will care. This is what separates us from the animals. We have feelings.

the mind can also be kind and does blot out those episodes of our existence that we can't erase in our consciousness.

Die Natur schlägt im Menschen die Augen auf und bemerkt, dass sie da ist.

We see not because everything is visible, but because something always defies the eye, persisting beyond the remit of mere representation. This something, which Pasolini endeavors to situate at the heart of filmmaking, is preceisely 'that which always escapes from the grasp of that form of vision that is satisfied with itself in imagining itself as consicousness' (Lacan, 1998).

compos mentis.

If you are living in the past or in the future, you will never find a meaning in the present.

Empirical" knowledge itself is of little benefit unless it awakens the inner perception of man as to his own situation, his potentialities, his risks, and his destiny

The removal of God from human consciousness means the removal of meaning and purpose from human life.

No existen recuerdos más activos y vigorosos que aquellos que se esconden detrás del velo misterioso de la amnesia.

Jung acompanha-nos à porta do incognoscível e deixa que vejamos e comprendamos por nós próprios.

I want to sleep for half a second, a second, a minute, a century, but I want everyone to know that I'm still alive...

No se siente la verdad cuando está dentro de una misma.

No pasa nada por fuera. Eso es verdad. […] Pero ni tú ni nadie puede vigilar por el interior de los pechos.

Vendrán las iguanas vivas a morder a los hombres que no sueñan

Ningún pensamiento cargaba sentimientos: podía pensar, tranquilamente en cosas tristes: solamente eran pesadas. Ahora se me acercaban los recuerdos como si yo estuviera tirado bajo un árbol y me cayeran hojas encima: las vería y las recordaría porque me habían caído y porque las tenía encima.

Can there be any study of humanity, in 1946, without historians who are ambitious, conscious of their duties and of their immense powers?