Quotes About Awareness

And hence this is what time is: it is entirely in the present, in our minds, as memory and as anticipation.

Ever since we discovered that the Earth is round and turns like a mad spinning-top we have understood that reality is not as it appears to us: every time we glimpse a new aspect of it, it is a deeply emotional experience. Another veil has fallen.

Science, I believe, is a passionate search for always newer ways to conceive the world. Its strength lies not in the certainties it reaches but in a radical awareness of the vastness of our ignorance.

Our intuitions have developed on the basis of our limited experience.

due to the limitations of our consciousness we perceive only a blurred vision of the world and live in time.

This is also true from a methodological point of view: a scientist orients his own research on the basis of epistemological ideas. He might be more or less aware of them. Very often to be aware of your own assumptions is far better than to be guided by methodological prejudices of which you are unaware.

The only truly infinite thing is our ignorance.

It is characteristic of genius to be aware of the limitations of its own findings

We are structured to manage precisely this: information; and remain in existence thanks to this.

A scientist is someone who lives immersed in the awareness of our deep ignorance, in direct contact with our own innumerable limits, with the limits of our understanding.

As our knowledge has grown, we have learned that our being is only a part of the universe, and a small part at that. This

This is also what critical reading of our histories makes possible: we cannot repair what we cannot reconcile; we cannot truly know what we will not truly see.

Critical reading returns you to your life with renewed eyes; it deepens the world for you, inasmuch as it deepens you for the world.

Learn to see, and then you'll know there is no end to the new worlds of our vision.

Learn to see, and then you'll know that there is no end to the new worlds of our vision.

Human beings are on a journey of awareness, which has been momentarily interrupted by extraneous forces.

The aim is to balance the terror of being alive with the wonder of being alive.

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye.

Forget the self and you will fear nothing, in whatever level or awareness you find yourself to be.

The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity.

All of us, whether or not we are warriors, have a cubic centimeter of chance that pops out in front of our eyes from time to time. The difference between an average man and a warrior is that the warrior is aware of this, and one of his tasks is to be alert, deliberately waiting, so that when his cubic centimeter pops out he has the necessary speed, the prowess, to pick it up.

Seek and see all the marvels around you. You will get tired of looking at yourself alone, and that fatigue will make you deaf and blind to everything else. - Don Juan

O tempo é a minha matéria. O tempo presente, os homens presentes, a vida presente.