Quotes About Awareness

Freedom is strangely ephemeral. It is something like breathing; one only becomes acutely aware of its importance when one is choking.

The greatest ownership of all is to glance around and understand.

A man might pass for insane who should see things as they are.

Decent people should ignore politics, if only they could be confident that politics would ignore them

The larger lesson is that technological development does not necessarily mean civilized values ~~ we all have to remain on guard. Humans, unlike robots, have the power to choose how to behave.

Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.

Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.

It is the bliss of childhood that we are being warped most when we know it the least.

He walked out into the cold morning asking himself this heretical question: Can you start measuring a minute at any instant you wish?

As Rilke observed, love requires a progressive shortening of the senses: I can see you for miles; I can hear you for blocks, I can smell you, maybe, for a few feet, but I can only touch on contact, taste as I devour

Binder was living on the edge already and knowing it, knowing that he was spending time like money he might not be able to replace.

There was more wickedness in the world than you thought and you've stirred it up and got it on you, ain't ye?

Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.

We see in order to move; we move in order to see.

My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image.

Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn't you? I'm part of you? Close, close, close! I'm the reason why it's no go? Why things are what they are?

Maybe," he said hesitantly, "maybe there is a beast." [...] "What I mean is, maybe it's only us.

These classes are sometimes discontented, and sometimes not. Sometimes they do not know that anything is amiss with them until the "friends of humanity" come to them with offers of aid. Sometimes

Blaise Pascal: "All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.

But none are so safe from sin as they that fear the falling into it most.

We need do no more to lose our souls than to seek ourselves.

The true doctor studies harder than the freshman, because, as he knows more of learning, so by that knowledge he un derstands his own deficiency better; for the higher he ascends the hill of learning, the more his prospect en largeth, while the other, standing at the bottom, thinks he knows all in his little.