Quotes About Awareness

I have sometimes thought that the mere hearing of those songs would do more to impress some minds with the horrible character of slavery, than the reading of whole volumes of philosophy on the subject could do.

Beware of a Yankee when he is feeding

I was most keenly sensitive to know any and everything possible that had any relation to the subject of slavery. I was all ears, all eyes, whenever the words slave or slavery dropped from the lips of any white person, and more and more frequently occasions occurred when these words came leading ones in high, social debate at our house.

We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake...the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; and its crimes...denounced.

You degrade us, and then ask why we are degraded—you shut our mouths, and then ask why we don't speak—you close your colleges and seminaries against us, and then ask us why we don't know more!

But meanwhile my store-bought arteries were slowly hardening, and every day six thousand cells were dying in my irreplaceable brain; and meanwhile stars slowed in their flight and the universe dragged itself toward its ultimate entropic death, and meanwhile - Meanwhile everything, if you stopped to think of it, was skidding downhill. And I never gave any of it a thought.

Seeing, in the finest and broadest sense, means using your senses, your intellect, and your emotions. It means encountering your subject matter with your whole being. It means looking beyond the labels of things and discovering the remarkable world around you.

Love of learning is a pleasant and universal bond since it deals with what one is and not what one has.

My genius is in my nostrils.

What you seek is close by and rises to meet you.

One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

And once you are awake, you shall remain awake eternally.

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.

Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.

Truths are illlusions which we have forgotten are illusions.

The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment.

Close beside my knowledge lies my black ignorance.

We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge - and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves - how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves? It has rightly been said: Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also; our treasure is where the beehives of our knowledge are.

The most common sort of lie is that by which a man deceives himself: the deception of others is a relatively rare offense.

Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad.

Ten truths must you find during the day; otherwise will you seek truth during the night, and your soul will have been hungry.

Ultimately no one can hear in things?books included?more than he already knows. If you have no access to something from experience, you will have no ear for it.

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.