Quotes About Awareness

Ever the words of the gods resound; But the porches of man's ear seldom in this low life's round are unsealed, that he may hear.

I don't think any man writing can worry about what the act of writing costs him, even though at times he is very aware of it.

Wise men say nothing in dangerous times

The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.

The wise man knows of all things, as far as possible, although he has no knowledge of each of them in detail

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

For the task assigned them Men aren't smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.

We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself.

I feel like style is like accent. You don't hear it on yourself, and then everyone's like, man, you got a strong accent.

There's music in the sighing of a reed; There's music in the gushing of a rill; There's music in all things, if men had ears; The earth is but the music of the spheres.

God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course.

Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.

The ultimate function of art is to make men do what they want to do, as it is to make them recognize what they know.

It's very easy for some men and in some cases women to sit back and say with 20-20 hindsight, "Tsk-tsk, should have done more." But it doesn't account for the reality.

Only the basic situations in life occur only once, never to return. For a man to be a man, he must be fully aware of this never-to-return. (p.148)

...self-consciousness is a man's worst enemy.

Literature is a human apocalypse, man's revelation to man, and criticism is not a body of adjudications, but the awareness of that revelation, the last judgement of mankind.

Agesilaus being invited once to hear a man who admirably imitated the nightingale, he declined, saying he had heard the nightingale itself.

Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it - but there is.

If a man carefully examine his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead. Such a creature is probably immortal.

Man is unique in that, unlike animals, he knows he is going to die, and unlike animals he can do something about it.

For the value of everything exists for man only so long as he does not understand it. When he has fully understood, the value is lost, be it the lowest thing or the highest thing.

Men talk about Bible miracles because there is no miracle in their lives. Cease to gnaw that crust. There is ripe fruit over your head.

I think if more people would understand how simple and what really feminism is, I would imagine that most men I know are feminists without verbalising or saying so.