Quotes About Awareness

It sometimes happens and will sometimes happen again that I forget who I am and strut before my eyes, like a stranger.

If I was dead, I wouldn't know I was dead. That's the only thing I have against death. I want to enjoy my death.

Our vulgar perception is not concerned with other than vulgar phenomena.

I say me, knowing all the while it's not me.

There are some things which it is madness not to try to know but which it is almost as much madness to try to know.

To be is to think and to be thinkable. To live is to continue thinking and to remember having done so.

Nothing will ever die so long as it knows what to do under the circumstances, in other words so long as it knows its business.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know he is dead.

It is hard enough to know whether one is happy or unhappy now, and still harder to compare the relative happiness or unhappiness of different times of one's life; the utmost that can be said is that we are fairly happy so long as we are not distinctly aware of being miserable.

Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.

We next to never know when we are well off: but this cuts two ways,--for if we did, we should perhaps know better when we are ill off also; and I have sometimes thought that there are as many ignorant of the one as of the other.

Never see a wretched little heavy-eyed mite sitting on the edge of a chair against your study wall without saying to yourselves, "perhaps this boy is he who, if I am not careful, will one day tell the world what manner of man I was." If even two or three schoolmasters learn this lesson and remember it, the preceding chapters will not have been written in vain.

How strange it was! He wanted to remember these things very badly; he knew he did, but he could never retain them; in spite of himself they no sooner fell upon his mind than they fell off it again, he had such a dreadful memory; whereas, if anyone played him a piece of music and told him where it came from, he never forgot that, though he made no effort to retain it, and was not even conscious of trying to remember it at all. His mind must be badly formed and he was no good.

Anything is easy to the man who sees.... The open eye of the open mind--that has more to do with real detective work than all the deduction and induction and analysis ever devised.

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

He that hopes to look back hereafter with satisfaction upon past years must learn to know the present value of single minutes, and endeavour to let no particle of time fall useless to the ground.

Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known.

Some people have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully; for I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else.