Quotes About Awareness

We tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat.

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

Common sense tells us that we can understand and navigate our way through that reality, and common sense tells us that the more we know about that outside world, the better we can act on it, both as individuals and as members of a community.

We all worry about the population explosion, but we don't worry about it at the right time.

I am the shoemaker who sees only shoes in the world; being a therapist, I see only pain in humans. All scientists have to be careful of this because when we have a hammer, everything in the world looks like a nail.

Spreken over iets wat je niet begrijpt is onnozel, ernaar vragen slim. Wat is wetenschap anders dan uitkomen voor je onwetendheid? Je kunt immers alleen iets leren waar je nog geen weet van hebt.

Nu echter weet ik wat ik mis. Ik weet: mijn uren zouden van elkaar te onderscheiden moeten zijn. Ik kan ze nergens aan meten. Er is geen schaal. Geen enkel voorval markeert mijn tijd. Ik verstrijk dus tegenwoordig zelf.

Ander mensen dragen hun verdriet in hun hart. Ongezien holt dat hen vanbinnen uit. Het is mijn redding geweest dat ik mijn verdriet aan de buitenkant draag, waar het niemand kan ontgaan.

Some of the greatest discoveries...consist mainly in the clearing away of psychological roadblocks which obstruct the approach to reality; which is why, post factum they appear so obvious.

When one contemplates the streak of insanity running through human history, it appears highly probable that homo sapiens is a biological freak, the result of some remarkable mistake in the evolutionary process. The ancient doctrine of original sin, variants of which occur independently in the mythologies of diverse cultures, could be a reflection of man's awareness of his own inadequacy, of the intuitive hunch that somewhere along the line of his ascent something has gone wrong.

And let me tell you this: our higher senses are blunted. We are so drenched with material sin, that we should probably fail to recognize real wickedness if we encountered it

And let me tell you this: our higher senses are so blunted, we are so drenched with materialism, that we should probably fail to recognize real wickedness if we encountered it.

Unlike Dyson, he [Phillipps] walked fast, with his eye on the pavement, absorbed in his thoughts, and oblivious of the life around him; and he could not have told by what streets he had passed, when he suddenly lifted up his eyes and found himself in Leicester Square.

I am inclined to notice the ruin in things, perhaps because I was born in Italy.

The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.

Everything we are is at every moment alive in us.

Why am I trying to become what I don't want to be … when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am.

The two most common elements in the world are hydrogen and stupidity.

I say one must be a seer, make oneself a seer. The poet makes himself a seer by an immense, long, deliberate derangement of all the senses.

But I've just noticed that my mind is asleep.

La vraie vie est absente. Nous ne sommes pas au monde.

Ben bir baÅŸkas?d?r. Kendini keman olarak duyumsayan oduna yaz?k. Hiç bilmedikleri konularda tart??an bilinçsiz insanlar? küçümsüyorum.

The first study for a man who wants to be a poet is the knowledge of himself, entire. He searches his soul, he inspects it, he tests it, he learns it. As soon as he knows it, he cultivates it.

Cielos! ¡Somos ya bastantes los condenados aquí abajo! ¡Llevo ya tanto tiempo en su rebaño! Los conozco a todos. Nos reconocemos siempre; nos damos asco.