Quotes About Awareness

True philosophy entails relearning to see the world anew.

Psychological reflection, however, obliges us to place the precise world back into its cradle of consciousness, to ask ourselves how the very idea of the precise world or of precise truth is possible, and to seek out its first springing forth into consciousness. (...) Consciousness must be brought face to face with its unreflective life in things and must awaken to its own, forgotten, history - this is the true role of philosophical reflection.

There is a self-knowledge that is not knowledge and is not self-consciousness; there is a presence of the past that is not in fact given in it, but also not what I will in the instant; and there is a doing that is not the fiat of a closed signification.

My organism--as a pre-personal adhesion to the general form of the world, as an anonymous and general existence--plays the role of an innate complex beneath the level of my personal life. My organism is not like some inert thing, it itself sketches out the movement of existence.

Institution...is neither perceived nor thought as a concept. It is the wherewithal on which I count at eh moment, which is seen nowhere and is assumed by everything that is visible for a human beimg, it is what is at issue each moment and which has no name and no identity in our theories of consciousness.

The Umwelt is less and less oriented toward a goal and more and more toward the interpretation of symbols.

The living physiology of the nervous system can only be understood by starting from phenomenal givens.

Trace: presence of an absent: experience of an absence.

There are several ways for the body to be a body, and several ways for consciousness to be consciousness.

We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven.

A pre-self, a latent ego that remains in ignorance of itself, because it has not yet encountered in others a limit to the self.

The unthought can only appear through contact.

The structure 'world,' with its double movement of sedimentation and spontaneity, is at the center of consciousness.

The awareness of truth advances like a crab, turned towardits point of departure, toward that structure whose signification it expresses.

What does it mean to think?: we rediscover a path that the thing has already traversed.

The unconscious: excess of the perceptual over the notional.

Alg?m görsel, dokunsal ve i?itsel verilerin toplam? de?ildir. Bütün varl???mla, bütünlüklü bir ?ekilde alg?alr?m: Ayn? anda tüm duygular?ma konu?an biricik bir yap?y?, biricik bir varl?k biçimini kavrar?m.

The perceiving mind is an incarnated mind.

What is at issue is to recognize the operation in us which is us and which is not ours.

I found in the experience of the perceived world a new type of relation between the mind and truth...We experience in it a truth which shows through and envelops us rather than being held and circumscribed by our mind.

The contact with the perceived is not ignorance and is not knowledge.

Perception teaches us an ontology that it alone can reveal to us.

No more than the sky or the earth is the horizon a collection of things held together, or a class name, or a logical possibility of conception, or a system of 'potentiality of consciousness': it is a new type of being, a being by porosity, or by generality, and the one before whom the horizon opens is caught up, englobed, within it.

The instability of levels produces not only the intellectual experience of disorder, but the vital experience of giddiness and nausea, which is the awareness of our own contingency and the horror with which it fills us.