Quotes About Awareness

Nothing is further from the truth than the claim that the American soul is 'open-minded' and unbiased; on the contrary, it is ridden with countless taboos of which people are sometimes not even aware.

The sun never knew how wonderful it was," the architect Louis Kahn said, "until it fell on the wall of a building

So benumbed are we nowadays by electric lights that we have become utterly insensitive to the evils of excessive illumination

And then I understood that the answer is yes, yes yes: I care because I want you to care about me. I care because I have become aware of my absolute dependency upon you, whoever you are, for the outcome of my social, my democratic experience.

We must make language accountable to the truths of our experience.

One piece of information that made an impression on her was that individual Chinese lives mattered to the Westerners.

Often a hungry person will wolf down unpalatable food; but as his stomach swells, he'll suddenly notice how bad the food is and fell nauseated.

And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.

he is thinking about thoughts; so many thoughts piled up, such a quantity of half-remembered knowledge, so many emotions brought up from the well to spill out: the unrolling of history - a river into which you can't step twice, a collection of biographies end to end, a hilltop to survey the surrounding plains and so on - but also, more so, the anxieties prompted by the spooling of time and the awareness of its unstoppable nature; and random thoughts...

We grow up and figure out the truth, we realize how hard it is to maintain and take care of life, even the ones that deceive you, especially the ones you cherish

A dream only becomes one when you wake up.

What we mean when we say terrible conditions is conditions which we are aware of as being terrible.

You can't force yourself into something you can't understand, you know.

Opravdu straÅ¡ná situace je asi ta, o níž si uvÄ›domujeme, že je straÅ¡ná.

Se spune c? repetarea continu? a aceloraÅŸi gesturi asigur? o form? eficient? de camuflaj. Dac? s-ar topi într-o via?? de repet?ri simple, ar sosi poate o vreme cand nu-ÅŸi vor mai da seama de prezenÅ£a lui.

How much significance could the roadway to others have when death was closer than one's companions?

Gândul acesta îi st?ruia într-un ungher al conÅŸtiinÅ£ei, ca o ruf? ud?, acolo unde, singur?, b?taia inimii era dureros de clar?.

the one who best understands the significance of light is not the electrician, not the painter, not the photographer, but the man who has lost his sight in adulthood.

Being a clown would be all right, but I did not want to be a clown unaware that he was one.

What a surprise attack. To imagine that you perceived that my mask was a mask and nevertheless went on pretending to be deceived.

just as, in the dark, one sees only darkness whether one keeps his eyes open or shut, looks right or left.

I was dazzled perhaps by the double aspect of the mask—was it the negation of my real face or actually a new face?—and I had been obliged to take an unavoidably circuitous road because I had forgotten the essential point that even this daze was a form of action.

I must be continually alert to the mask, as one is to handling complicated machinery.

No somos tan insensibles como para confundir los hombres vivos y los hombres ya procesados en rebanadas y salchichas.