Quotes About Awareness

In Biology Patrick and I were like two pencils in a box, parallel but not alive to each other, my guilty feelings stifling my common sense.

North. He believes they saw him as

I'm realizing human nature is a very difficult thing to escape. We can be self-righteous, or realize much of what we hate in others is what we have inside ourselves.

stops every now and again to check on ya.

ability to read her heart—to see beyond the surface to what was boiling just underneath.

Clearly, animals know more than we think, and think a great deal more than we know." -Irene Pepperburg

Clearly animals know more than we think, and think a great deal more than we know." Irene Pepperberg

Scientists at the University of Georgia recently discovered that rats are self-aware and capable of something like introspection—complex

We were wrong about why these animals behave as they do, in part, I think, because most of us do not grant animals even the simplest form of thought, or recognize that they do things intentionally.

Clearly, animals know more than we think and think a great deal more than we know.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them. The greatest gift I can give is to see, hear, understand and to touch another person. When this is done I feel contact has been made.

In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.

Le plus difficile à admettre, c'est la certitude qu'on oubliera.

Who is in fact the victim [of porn]? The actresses, who surrender their dignity the moment we see them giving a blow job? Or the male viewers, weak and unable to overcome their wish to watch sex, or to understand that what they are watching is merely a performance?

Il ne va pas crever tout seul. La petite innocente jolis yeux, il va lui montrer d'un seul coup, à quoi ressemble son monde à lui.

All knowledge, therefore, secular or spiritual, is in the human mind. In many cases it is not discovered, but remains covered, and when the covering is being slowly taken off, we say, "We are learning," and the advance of knowledge is made by the advance of this process of uncovering. The man from whom this veil is being lifted is the more knowing man, the man upon whom it lies thick is ignorant

When was the first I knew something about her in a world where men were sex, but women?—weren't we just supposed to get out of the way when we saw it coming?

We must remain aware that, despite the veneer of civilization and the outward manifestations of culture and refinement, insidious atavistic impulses remain in every country and no nation has a monopoly on atrocity.

I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history.

I always thought we had an environmental problem, but I hadn't realized how urgent it was. James Lovelock writes that by the end of this century there will be one billion people left.

Divido a la humanidad en dos campos bien diferenciados. Por un lado, el puñado de los que saben de qué se trata; por el otro, la inmensa multitud de los que no lo saben.