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Quotes About Awareness

les esprits prométhéens croient être des hasards se mouvant librement dans un vide et capables de se « créer » eux-mêmes, le tout dans le cadre d'une existence dépourvue de sens ; le monde est absurde, paraît-il, mais on ne se rend pas compte - et cela est typique — de l'absurdité d'admettre l'avènement, au sein d'un monde absurde, d'un être censé capable de constater cette absurdité.
~ Frithjof Schuon
Manquer de lumière est autre chose que d'éteindre celle que l'on possède.
~ Frithjof Schuon
The entire economy of the Western world is built on things that cause cancer.
~ From the 1985 movie "Bliss"
in the dark you have to describe yourself. In the daylight other people describe you.
~ Fynn
The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
To be too conscious is an illness — a real thoroughgoing illness.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
To be too conscious is an illness. A real thorough going illness.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
If you talk to people nowadays, nothing exists unless it has been seen on TV. It gives people the idea they have seen and know everything, when really they have seen and know nothing.
~ G. B. Edwards
Error is better than apathy. Error can be corrected in time to change the outcome. Apathy is seldom corrected until it is too late.
~ G. Edward Griffin
What you call the subconscious, is in my opinion the real human consciousness.
~ G. I. Gurdjieff
There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.
~ G. K. Chesterton
It isn't that they can't see the solution, it's that they can't see the problem.
~ G. K. Chesterton
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
~ G. K. Chesterton
No man knows he is young while he is young.
~ G. K. Chesterton
There's a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
~ G. K. Chesterton
I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
~ G. K. Chesterton
Journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones is dead" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.
~ G. K. Chesterton
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
~ G. K. Chesterton
It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.
~ G. K. Chesterton
A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.
~ G. K. Chesterton
Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.
~ G. K. Chesterton