Quotes About Consciousness

There would seem to be nothing more obvious, more tangible and palpable than the present moment. And yet it eludes us completely. All the sadness of life lies in that fact. In the course of a single second, our senses of sight, of hearing, of smell, register (knowingly or not) a swarm of events and a parade of sensations and ideas passes through our head. Each instant represents a little universe, irrevocably forgotten in the next instant.

At what exact moment did the real turn into the unreal, reality into reverie? Where was the border? Where is the border?

existential mathematics...) the degree of slowness is directly proportional to the intensity of memory; the degree of speed is directly proportional to the intensity of forgetting." –p. 39

I think, therefore I am is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches. I feel, therefore I am is a truth much more universally valid, and it applies to everything that's alive.

Man passes through the present with his eyes blindfolded. He is permitted merely to sense and guess at what he is actually experiencing. Only later when the cloth is untied can he glance at the past and find out what he has experienced and what meaning it has had.

It was time laid bare, time in and of itself, time at its most basic and primal, and it forced me to call it by its true name (for now I was living pure time—pure, vacant time) so as not to forget it for a moment, keep it constantly before me, and feel its weight.

The consciousness of my own baseness has done nothing to reconcile me to the baseness of others. Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another. I have no desire for that slimy brotherhood.

in that state he is unaware of his age, his wife, his children, his worries, and so he has no fear, because the source of fear is in the future, and a person freed of the future has nothing to fear.

In existential mathematics that experience takes the form of two basic equations: The degree of slowness is directly proportional to the intensity of memory; the degree of speed is directly proportional to the intensity of forgetting.

The moment someone keeps an eye on what we do, we involuntarily make allowances for that eye, and nothing we do is truthful.

Alas, I found no guarantee I would have acted any better; but how has that affected my relationship with others? The consciousness of my own baseness has done nothing to reconcile me to the baseness of others. Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another. I have no desire for that slimy brotherhood.

SeçmediÄŸimiz bir ÅŸeye kendi erdemimiz ya da baÅŸar?s?zl???m?z gözüyle bakamay?z.

He had come to find out that reality was more than a dream, much more than a dream!

Se un uomo fosse responsabile solo di ciò di cui è cosciente, gli idioti sarebbero assolti da in anticipo da qualsiasi colpa

Es posible echarle en cara al hombre el estar ciego en su vida cotidiana con respecto a tales cualidades y dejar así que su vida pierda la dimensión de belleza.

Hace mucho tiempo, el hombre oía extrañado el sonido de un golpeteo dentro de su pecho y no tenía idea de su origen. El cuerpo era una jaula y dentro de ella había algo que miraba, escuchaba, temía, pensaba y se extrañaba; ese algo, ese resto que quedaba al sustraerle el cuerpo, ese algo era el alma. La cara no es más que una especie de tablero de instrumentos en el que desembocan todos los mecanismos del cuerpo.

Conversation with his wife was easy, Danish having turned into a private jargon for themselves. But with other people he was always conscious of choosing his words, constructing a sentence, watching his accent. It seemed to him that when Danes talked they were running nimbly, while he was trudging along behind, lugging a twenty-kilo load.

Todas las situaciones básicas de la vida son sin retorno. Para que el hombre sea hombre, tiene que atravesar la imposibilidad de retorno con plena conciencia.

Merely by being born intelligent, you right away find yourself in absolute exile.

Si las personas solo fueran responsables de lo que hacen conscientemente, los idiotas estarían de antemano libres de cualquier culpa. Lo que pasa querido Flajsman, es que las personas tienen la obligación de saber. Las personas son responsables de su ignorancia. La ignorancia es culpable

Nehmen wir an, daß es im Weltall einen Planeten gibt, auf dem alle Menschen nocheinmal geboren werden. Sie werden sich an ihr Leben auf der Erde erinnern und sich aller Erfahrungen, die sie dort gesammelt haben, bewußt sein. (...) Und vielleicht gibt es noch weit mehr Planeten, auf denen die Menschheit neu geboren wird, immer um einen Grad (um ein Leben) reifer.

Simdiki zamani kat ederken gozlerimiz baglidir. Cok cok yasamakta oldugumuz seyleri sezebilir ve tahmin edebiliriz. Ancak daha sonralari, gozlerimizin bagi cozuldugunde ve gecmisi inceledigimizde ne yasamis oldugumuzu fark ederiz.

Heel lang geleden luisterde de mens vol verwondering naar de regelmatige slagen in zijn borst en had geen idee wat het was. Hij kon zichzelf niet identificeren met zoiets vreemds en onbekends als een lichaam. Het lichaam was een kooi waarin iets keek, luisterde, vreesde, piekerde en zich verbaasde; dat iets, dat restant nadat het lichaam buiten beschouwing werd gelaten, was de ziel.

Se un uomo fosse responsabile solo di ciò di cui è cosciente, gli idioti sarebbero assolti in anticipo da qualsiasi colpa.