Quotes About Consciousness

I would fain keep sober always; and there are infinite degrees of drunkenness. I

To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake. How could I have looked him in the face? We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us in our soundest sleep.

There is a certain perfection in accident which we never consciously attain.

I do not say that John or Jonathan will realize all this; but such is the character of that morrow which mere lapse of time can never make to dawn. The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

Per noi spunta solo quel giorno al cui sorgere siamo svegli.

beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

With thinking we may be beside ourselves in a sane sense. By a conscious effort of the mind we can stand aloof from actions and their consequences; and all things, good and bad, go by us like a torrent. We are not wholly involved in Nature. I may be either the driftwood in the stream, or Indra in the sky looking down on it.

La nostra vera vita è quando siamo svegli nei sogni.

Why is it that men give so poor an account of their day if they have not been slumbering?

do not let your left hand know what your right hand does, for it is not worth knowing.

Ciò che un uomo pensa di se stesso, è quello che determina, o piuttosto indica, il suo destino.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

The philosopher said: "From an army of three divisions one can take away its general, and put it in disorder; from the man the most abject and vulgar one cannot take away his thought.

Los economistas clásicos, al refutar los errores de su tiempo, mostraron que la política del ahorro, orientada en interés del individuo, sirve al propio tiempo el de la comunidad. Indicaban que el ahorrador consciente, al preocuparse de su propio futuro, no perjudicaba, sino que ayudaba a la sociedad.

He was there or was not there: not there if I didn't see him.

Of course I was under the spell, and the wonderful part is that, even at the time, I perfectly knew I was.

Wherever we go we carry this burden of our personal consciousness and wherever we step we open it out over our heads like a great baleful cotton umbrella to obstruct the prospect and obscure the light of heaven.

sensation more complex than had ever before found itself consistent with sanity.

We must feel everything, everything we can. We are here for that.

He was burdened, poor Strether—it had better be confessed at the outset—with the oddity of a double consciousness. There was detachment in his zeal and curiosity in his indifference.

There was an element of dull rage in his consciousness of things.

though leaving him always to remark, portentously, on his probably having formed a relation, his probably enjoying a consciousness, unique in the experience of man. People enough, first and last, had been in terror of apparitions, but who had ever before so turned the tables and become himself, in the apparitional world, an incalculable terror? He might have found this sublime had he quite dared to think of it; but he didn't too much insist, truly, on that side of his privilege.

Ah yes, there had been intention, there had been intention, Isabel said to herself; and she seemed to wake from a long pernicious dream.

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web, of the finest silken threads, suspended in the chamber of consciousness and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.