Quotes About Awareness

Battle day and night against the guile of oblivion...

What good would it do me if truth stood before me, cold and naked, not caring whether I recognized her or not?

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true. The other is to refuse to accept what is true.

If a person does not become what he understands, then he does not understand it either.

Only some one who knows how to remain essentially silent can really talk -- and act essentially

The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. ~ Søren Kierkegaard

The possibility of this sickness is man's superiority over the animal, and this superiority distinguishes him in quite another way than does his erect walk, for it indicates infinite erectness or sublimity, that he is spirit.8 The possibility of this sickness is man's superiority over the animal; to be aware of this sickness is the Christian's superiority over the natural man; to be cured of this sickness is the Christian's

The despairing man who is unconscious of being in despair is, in comparison with him who is conscious of it, merely a negative step further from the truth and from salvation.

Compel a person to an opinion, a conviction, a belief - in all eternity, that I cannot do. But one thing I can do: I can compel him to become aware.

Skal man hjelpe en annen, må man først finne ut hvor han er, og møte ham der. Dette er det første bud i all sann hjelpekunst.

Jos en tiedä omasta takaa, en tiedä lainkaan.

A person in sorrow or distress knows why he sorrows or is distressed. If you ask a melancholic what reason he has for his condition, what it is that weighs him down, he will replay, 'I don't know, what it is, I cannot explain it.' (pp499)

Wat voor goed zou het me doen als de waarheid voor me stond, koud en naakt, en er niet om gaf of ze door mij werd herkend of niet.

Are we so thoroughly convinced that we have attained the highest point that there is nothing left for us but to piously make ourselves believe that we have not got so far — just for the sake of having something left to occupy our time? Is it such a self-deception the present generation has need of, does it need to be trained to virtuosity in self-deception, or is it not rather sufficiently perfected already in the art of deceiving itself?

What is education? I should suppose that education was the curriculum one had to run through in order to catch up with oneself

History is not tied to slogans and ideals and reform movements. It is to rid ourselves of notions of doctrines and movements and look at the incidents of the past as they actually happened. And this can't happen unless we allow our minds to be cleared of the illusions created by the present.

Being ignorant is truly bliss compared to being misinformed, especially if you're aware of the depths of your own ignorance.

I really know the implications, and you don't. We're not talking about a better breed of catapults or . . . or D&D hit levels.

A man?s mind is never all of one thing, nor does he know himself or all his reasons beneath the masks he wears. They deceive even the wearer.

The man is always the last to know when Cupid has struck him -Anonymous, Memoirs of a Mistress

It is better to be blind than to see things from only one point of view.

It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.

We tend not to notice what is not there when often absence is the more vital thing.

Learn to recognize good luck when it's waving at you, hoping to get your attention.