Quotes About Awareness

For pilots sometimes see behind the curtain, behind the veil of gossamer velvet, and find the truth behind man, the force behind a universe.

You don't know Mexico, man. You have trivialized Mexico. You are a fool about Mexico if you think that Mexico is five blocks. That is not Mexico; that is some crude Americanism you have absorbed.

The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it.

The man who finds a truth lights a torch.

Who teach the mind its proper face to scan, And hold the faithful mirror up to man.

I didn't know the right names for anything at first, but I knew what knocked me out. Changes... man I dug.

A man who flatters a woman hopes either to find her a fool or to make her one.

No man ever became wise by chance.

A man in the jungle at night, as someone said, may suppose a hyena's growl to be a lion's; but when he hears the lion's growl, he knows damn well it's a lion.

The man who is truly wise knows that he knows very little.

Mankind must be positively and constructively wary of mankind, of their fellow man, of their families, of the members of their faith community, of their fellow-citizens.

Man is the only living being who has a developed self-awareness and death-awareness.

Death is as near to the young as to the old; here is all the difference: death stands behind the young man's back, before the old man's face.

No man can justly censure or condemn another, because indeed no man truly knows another.

Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he knows nothing but what has passed under his own eyes.

The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an Orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them.

It is strange that the tactile sense, which is so infinitely less precious to men than sight, becomes at critical moments our main, if not only, handle to reality.

A more conscious life is one in which a man is conscious not only of what he sees, but of the prejudices with which he sees it.

Every man whose business it is to think knows that he must for part of the day create about himself a pool of silence.

It is but the littleness of man that seeth no greatness in trifles.

Never slap a man who chews tobacco.

A feminist is a man or woman who already knows for a fact that men and women are qual and wants society to wake up to that fact, so the world can stop operating at half-strength.

I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.

Conscious man, to be sure, has at all times been keenly aware that life is an adventure, that life must, forever, be wrested from death.