Quotes About Consciousness

W naszych rozwa?aniach wyszli?my od podstawowego fenomenologicznego faktu, a mianowicie tego, i? cz?owiek jest bytem ?wiadomym i odpowiedzialnym, a jego ukoronowaniem jest synteza obu tych cech, to jest ?wiadomo?? w?asnej odpowiedzialno?ci.

The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten.

He reached for his pocket, and found there, only reality

What matters deafness of the ear, when the mind hears? The one true deafness, the incurable deafness, is that of the mind.

He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.

The best way to look at the soul is through closed eyes.

It does not do to let the senses fall asleep, whether in the shade of the sacred tree or in the shadow of an army.

Have no fear of robbers or murderers. Such dangers are without, and are but petty. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murderers. The great dangers are within us. What matters it what threatens our heads or our purses? Let us think only of what threatens our souls.

Their own destiny is a far-off thing to them ... One declines, descends, trickles away, even crumbles away, and yet is hardly conscious of it one's self. It always ends, it is true, in an awakening, but the awakening is tardy. In the meantime, it seems as though we held ourselves neutral in the game which is going on between our happiness and our unhappiness. We are the stake, and we look on at the game with indifference.

I buoni pensieri hanno i loro abissi al pari dei cattivi.

The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.

one speaks to one's self, talks to one's self, exclaims to one's self without breaking the external silence; there is a great tumult; everything about us talks except the mouth. The realities of the soul are none the less realities because they are not visible and palpable.

The realities of the soul are none the less realities because they are not visible and palpable.

It is certain that people do talk to themselves; there is no living being who has not done it. It may even be said that the word is never a more magnificent mystery than when it goes from thought to conscience within a man, and when it returns from conscience to thought;

Knowing that she was beautiful, she was thoroughly conscious, though in an indistinct fashion, that she possessed a weapon. Women play with their beauty as children do with a knife. They wound themselves.

Happiness and despair do not breathe the same air. A man in despair participates in the life of others from a great distance; he is almost unaware of their presence; he has lost any consciousness of his own existence; he is a thing of flesh and blood but feels that he is no longer real; he sees himself only as a dream.

As realidades da alma não deixam de ser realidades por não serem visíveis e palpáveis.

Existem meditações que se poderiam chamar verticais; quando se está lá no fundo, é preciso tempo para voltar à superfície.

Na verdade, se nos fosse dado penetrar com os olhos da carne na consciência dos outros, julgaríamos com mais segurança um homem pelo que devaneia do que pelo que pensa. O pensamento é absolutamente espontâneo, toma e conserva, mesmo no gigantesco e no ideal, a figura do nosso espírito. Não há coisa que mais directa e profundamente saia do fundo da nossa alma do que as nossas aspirações irreflectidas e desmesuradas para os esplendores do destino

An inward growth seemed to be in progress within him. He was conscious of a sort of natural enlargement, which gave him two things that were new to him — his father and his country.

Quiconque sait faire usage de la pensée finit par s'apercevoir qu'il n'y a point de choses indifférentes, et toute méditation dans un esprit sain et droit se termine par un éveil confus de responsabilité. Vivre, c'est être engagé.

In fact, were it given to our human eye to see into the consciences of others, we would judge a man much more surely from what he dreams than from what he thinks.

They were eyes no longer, but had become those fathomless mirrors which in men who have known the depths of suffering may replace the conscious gaze, so that they no longer see reality but reflect the memory of past events.

We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are." —ANAÏS NIN