Quotes About Awareness

To have memory return is to find consciousness pervaded by a variety of identifications, all simultaneously composing and fragmenting a shared public space, until that space itself seems to authorise another, far more abstract and imposing 'I'.

In every day and in every way, we're all that much closer to death.

I don't know much about Angola, but I know one thing, they're in a lot of trouble.

There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.

The finest trick of the devil is to persuade you that he does not exist.

The loveliest trick of the Devil is to persuade you that he does not exist!

The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.

The devil's best trick is to persuade you that he doesn't exist.

La plus belle des ruses du diable est de vous persuader qu'il n'existe pas." ( "The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist." )

The loss of innocence, and the arrival of knowingness, can become an addiction.

At its best, fiction is not a diversion but a means of knowing the world.

Everybody should read something. Otherwise we all fall down into the pit of ignorance. Many are down there. Some people fall in it forever. Their lives mean nothing. They should not exist. (From the short story, "Charity".)

Do you read, Mr. Quinn?" he asked. "Everybody should read something. Otherwise we all fall down into the pit of ignorance. Many are down there. Some people fall in it forever. Their lives mean nothing. They should not exist.

Es lo único que voy a decir sobre este tema por ahora. Como dice Chloé, hay cosas a las que más vale no darles muchas vueltas. Si quieres leer algo, lee el espacio blanco que queda en esta página. Soy yo, el que está en ese espacio.

Shepherds, did they but know it, walk through greater halls than kings.

Being alive is gardening and cooking and birds and green and blue, at the very least.

I always remind myself of all the things I should note if I am to be a good person, one sound and balanced. One night . . . I reminded myself that 22 species of flowers were blooming in my backyard. . . . that fact helped a great deal.

More students have a better knowledge of pop culture than of the Constitution.

As hard as it is to believe today, people didn't really know that there was a mob organization in those days.

You see, another thing I didn't know is that the kangaroo defends itself with its tail. It has an eight-foot tail that comes whipping up behind you when you knock the kangaroo down. And the harder I hit him, the harder and faster his tail came up behind me. I never saw that tail come whipping up behind me, and I never paid attention to the boxing glove on the tail. He had an eight-foot reach I didn't know about. Actually,

there are worse things than being alone but it often takes decades to realize this and most often when you do it's too late and there's nothing worse than too late

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

In a curious twist, I realize I always knew TV news seemed full of shit, but I never knew it was, in fact, full of shit.

It's a question of keeping one's eyes and ears open and watching how other people play the game. They're watching me too, to see what my attitude is like.