Quotes About Awareness

What is familiar is what we are used to; and what we are used to is most difficult to 'Know' - that is, to see as a problem; that is, to see as strange, as distant, as 'outside us'.

The discerning one walketh amongst men as amongst animals.

Precisely the least thing, the gentlest, lightest, the rustling of a lizard, a breath, a moment, a twinkling of the eye - little makes up the quality of the best happiness. Soft!

That the other suffers must be learned; and it can never be learned completely.

Ultimately, nobody can get more out of things, including books, than he already knows.

Only when he has attained a final knowledge of all things will man have come to know himself. For things are only the boundaries of man.

There is something the child sees that he does not see; something the child hears that he does not hear; and this something is the most important thing of all. Because he does not understand it, his understanding is more childish than the child's and more simple than simplicity itself; in spite of the many clever wrinkles on his parchment face, and the masterly play of his fingers in unravelling the knots.

Always at home. - One day we reach our goal, and now point with pride to the long travels we undertook to reach it. In fact, we were not even aware of traveling. But we got so far because we fancied at every point that we were at home.

Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things.

Man träumt gar nicht, oder interessant -- Man muss lernen, ebeson zu wachen: -- gar nicht, oder interessant

Take care not to spit against the wind!

When your sight has become good enough to see the bottom of the dark well of your being and knowing, you may also see in its mirror the distant constellations of future cultures.

We possess scientific knowledge today to precisely the extent that we have decided to accept the evidence of the senses – to the extent that we have learned to sharpen and arm them and to think them through to their conclusions.

Lighting and thunder require time; the light of the stars requires time; deeds, though done, still require time to be seen and heard.

Yo desprecio tu desprecias; y puesto que me has advertido a mí, ¿por qué no te advertiste a ti?

Kada dugo gledaš u bezdan tada bezdan krene gledati u tebe

Meanwhile, however, it is quite otherwise, meanwhile the comedy of existence has not yet become conscious of itself, meanwhile it is still the period of tragedy, the period of morals and religions.

for the objective of all human arrangements is through distracting one's thoughts to cease to be aware of life.

he who hears only a Will to Truth in the background, and nothing else, cannot certainly boast of the sharpest ears.

It was likewise never doubted that all the antecedentia of an action, its causes, were to be sought in the consciousness and could be discovered there if one sought them – as 'motives': for otherwise one would not have been free to perform it, responsible for it.

Believe me, friend Hellishnoise: the greatest events—they are not our loudest but our stillest hours.

And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee.

One who understands wanders among humans as among beasts.

There is an innocence in admiration: it occurs in one who has not yet realized that they might one day be admired.