Quotes About Awareness

One doesn't need telepathy to read your intentions.

Paul confronted his son then, aiming the eyeless sockets at Leto. "Do you really know the universe you have created here?

When the populace recognizes its chains. Keep the populace blind and unquestioning.

I warn you that ignorance thrives on hysteria.

And he realized with an abrupt sense shock that he had been giving more and more reliance to prescient memory and it had weakened him for this particular emergency.

Thinking you knew something was a sure way to blind yourself. It was not growing up that slowly applied brakes to learning (Mentats were taught) but an accumulation of "things I know." New

Is consciousness merely a special form of hallucination?

Expect only what happens in the fight. That way you'll never be surprised.

I'm like a person whose hands were kept numb, without sensation from the first moment of awareness—until one day the ability to feel is forced into them. The thought hung in her mind, an enclosing awareness. And I say: "Look! I have no hands!" But the people all around me say: "What are hands?

Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.

La esperanza ofusca la observación.

What senses do we lack that we can not see or hear another world all around us?

Nepoznato se u svakom trenutku nalazi posvuda uokolo. Tu treba tražiti znanje.

The mystery of consciousness? Erroneous data—significant results.

you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us? What is there around us that we cannot—

He was aware now of many things—of statecraft and profound consequences in the smallest decisions. Yet he felt this knowledge and subtlety as a thin veneer covering an iron core of simpler, more deterministic awareness. And that older core called out to him, pleaded with him for a return to cleaner values.

Kad sam se školovao za mentata...Bilo je vrlo teško, Alija, nau?iti kako rabiti vlastiti um. Prvo nau?iš dopuštati umu samostalno djelovanje. To je vrlo ?udno. Ti možeš rabiti svoje miši?e, vježbati ih, oja?avati, ali um radi sam od sebe. Ponekad, nakon što ve? nau?iš to o umu, on ti pokazuje stvari koje ne želiš vidjeti.

You must cultivate ecological literacy among the people.

Mentats cultivated naivete. Thinking you knew something was a sure way to blind yourself. It was not growing up that slowly applied brakes to learning (Mentats were taught) but an accumulation of "things I know.

Paul sat back. He had used the questions and hyperawareness to do what his mother called "registering" the person. He had Kynes now—tone of voice, each detail of face and gesture.

How many times must I tell that lad never to settle himself with his back to a door?

You must not look far afield for problems. Such problems may never arrive. Instead, tend to the wolf within your fences. The packs ranging outside might not even exist.

The music of a civilization has far-reaching consequences on consciousness and, thus, influences the basic nature of a society. Music and its rhythms divert and compel the awareness, describing the limits within which a consciousness, thus fascinated, may operate. Control the music, then, and you own a powerful tool with which to shape the society. ?The Dosadi Analysis, BuSab Documents

The most perfect barrier to learning a thing is the belief that is it already known