Quotes About Awareness

It's easy to think that as a result of the extinction of the dodo we are now sadder and wiser, but there's a lot of evidence to suggest that we are merely sadder and better informed.

He knew where his towel was.

They were aware that this day they would represent their entire race in its greatest moment, but they conducted themselves calmly and quietly as they seated themselves deferentially before the desk

He lay, panting heavily in the wet air, and tried feeling bits of himself to see where he might be hurt. Wherever he touched himself, he encountered a pain. After a short while he worked out that this was because it was his hand that was hurting.

We notice things that don't work. We don't notice things that do.

I wasn't in the universe, I was in England, a point that has been made to me before.

just because you see something, it doesn't mean to say it's there. And if you don't see something, it doesn't mean to say it's not there. It's only what your senses bring to your attention.

PRODO -explicó- es algo que no podemos ver, que no distinguimos o que nuestra mente no nos deja observar porque creemos que es un problema de otro. Eso es lo que significa PRODO. Problema de Otro. El cerebro se limita solamente a perfilarlo, es como un punto ciego. Si se mira directamente no se ve, a menos que se sepa qué es exactamente. La única esperanza consiste en percibirlo por sorpresa con el rabillo del ojo.

Ä°lk sav?n sahipleri meselenin bu olmad???n? söylüyorlard?. Meselenin ne olduÄŸuna tam olarak emin deÄŸillerdi, ama bu olmad???n? biliyorlard?.

How can I tell, said the man, that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate physical sensations and my state of mind?" Zarniwoop stared at him. The steam began to rise from his sodden clothes. So you answer all questions like this? he said. The man answered quickly. I say what occurs to me to say when I think I hear people say things. More I cannot say.

So what's the point of showing me something I can't see? So that you understand that just because you see something, it doesn't mean to say it's there. And if you don't see something, it doesn't meant to say it's not there. It's only what your senses bring to your attention.

The immensity of time worried him, he could feel it as a presence.

How can I tell,' said the man, 'that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate physical sensations and my state of mind?

Esa muchacha es una de las formas de vida orgánica menos sumida en la ignorancia y menos torpe que he tenido la profunda falta de placer de no ser capaz de evitar conocer

How can you tell there's anything out there?' said the man politely. 'The door's closed.

that just because you see something, it doesn't mean to say it's there. And if you don't see something, it doesn't mean to say it's not there. It's only what your senses bring to your attention.

You cannot see what I see because you see what you see. You cannot know what I know because you know what you know. What I see and what I know cannot be added to what you see and what you know because they are not of the same kind. Neither can it replace what you see and what you know, because that would be to replace you yourself.

He hadn't realized that life speaks with a voice to you, a voice that brings you answers to the questions you continually ask of it, had never consciously detected it or recognized its tones until it now said something it had never said to him before, which was "yes.

Arthur woke up and instantly regretted it.

Douglas Adams: The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas-covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 millions miles away, and think this to be normal, is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be. (Helgoland, 117.)

once you know what it is you want to be true, instinct is a very useful device for enabling you to know that it is.

So what's the point of showing me something I can't see?' 'So that you understand that just because you see something, it doesn't mean to say it's there. And if you don't see something, it doesn't mean to say it's not there. It's only what your senses bring to your attention.

oh! this is an interesting sensation, what is it? It's a sort of … yawning, tingling sensation in my … my … well, I suppose I'd better start finding names for things if I want to make any headway in what for the sake of what I shall call an argument I shall call the world, so let's call it my stomach.

And if you don't see something, it doesn't mean to say it's not there. It's only what your senses bring to your attention.