Quotes About Awareness

The surface of everything is thinner than we know. A person can fall right through, without any warning at all.

A veteran bystander to hard moments, I knew they went by quicker when you were unconscious.

telegram saying, "Existence is great but don't read so much into it.

Not confidence—I understand confidence. What he had was knowledge.

You know what you're getting here, I said. I'm still fairly far reduced. I may never be unabridged again. None of us are unabridged, as you are well aware.

I saw it happening but could not stop it. Humility came to me too late. I'm a living proverb; learn from me.

I wanted to hear about many small things, the smaller the better. I wanted to tell her small things in return.

The human brain, instinctively, and unfailingly translates everything into terms of How does that affect ME? Start every appropriate sentence with you.

When going to a gathering with great networking possibilities, the best way to ensure you are conversationally in the swing of things is to listen to a newscast just before you leave.

I am influenced by every second of my waking hour.

must be lonesome, being bright and witty and aware

Philosophy is knowledge that one does not know; that is to say, it is knowledge of what one does not know, or awareness of the fundamental problems and, therewith, of the fundamental alternatives regarding their solution that are coeval with human thought.

Nietzsche is aware that nothing which is not eternal can satisfy a thinking man. In Marx there is not a trace of that, and that is the great superiority of Nietzsche.

Shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder.

You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.

Until a man is struck in his own face he does not want to believe the attack on his brother concerns him.

The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.

Never make a decision when you need to pee.

Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore

As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armour themselves against wonder.

With regard to both the physical and the social world, one of the main lessons of neuroscience is that our perception of reality is something we actively construct, not a passive documentation of objective events.

There is therefore a fundamental clash between our need to feel we are in control and our ability to recognize randomness.

The first step in battling the illusion of control is to be aware of it.

These subliminal aspects of everything that happens to us may seem to play very little part in our daily lives. But they are the almost invisible roots of our conscious thoughts.