Quotes About Awareness

You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.

I had made a decision, although I hardly knew it yet. It's often that way with decisions, they're made in some hidden part of us and the awareness secretes itself slowly into that conscious part of us that imagines it decides.

What's the South African thing that I always mix up with "apathy"? (Thinks.) "Apartheid!" That wasn't me, so just get down off your high horse, okay?

Each of us, A CEll Of Awareness... imperfect, and incomplete. Genetic blends, with uncertain ends.

I even felt a vicarious guilt, like a German meeting Jewish people in Poland who had never heard of the Holocaust, or that there were Jews in America, and trying to explain it to them. Ashea, I wished I could say. Ashea.

Perils of solitude #1: People talk to you. I'd rather listen.

setting off," when the world both contracts and expands at the same time.

All preordained A prisoner in chains A victim of venomous fate Kicked in the face You can't pray for a place In heaven's unearthly estate Each of us A cell of awareness Imperfect and incomplete Genetic blends With uncertain ends On a fortune hunt that's far too fleet

Those who know what's best for us must rise and save us from ourselves.

Perhaps we should abandon the whole idea of trying to make students intelligent and focus on the idea of making them less ignorant. Doctors do not generally concern themselves with health; they concentrate on sickness. And lawyers don't think too much about justice; they think about cases of injustice. Using this model in teaching would imply identifying and understanding various forms of ignorance and working to eliminate as many of them as we can.

It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcoticized by technological diversions

How often does it occur that information provided you on morning radio or television, or in the morning newspaper, causes you to alter your plans for the day, or to take some action you would not otherwise have taken, or provides insight into some problem you are required to solve?

One characteristic of those who live in a Technopoly is that they are largely unaware of both the origins and the effects of their technologies.

We Americans seem to know everything about the last twenty-four hours but very little of the last sixty centuries or the last sixty years."4

Ignorance is always correctable. But what shall we do if we take ignorance to be knowledge?

Lippmann, for example, wrote in 1920: "There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.

What's wrong with turning back the clock if the clock is wrong? We need not be slaves to our technologies

But most of our daily news is inert, consisting of information that gives us something to talk about but cannot lead to any meaningful action.

we are losing our sense of what it means to be well informed. Ignorance is always correctable. But what shall we do if we take ignorance to be knowledge? Here

Walter Lippmann, for example, wrote in 1920: "There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.

I am an optimist because I think it might just be possible for people to learn how to recognize empty, false, self-serving, or inhumane language, and therefore to protect themselves from at least some of its spiritually debasing consequences.

Huxley grasped, as Orwell did not, that it is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcoticized by technological diversions.

An Orwellian world is much easier to recognize, and to oppose, than a Huxleyan.

La inteligencia se define fundamentalmente como nuestra capacidad para captar la verdad de las cosas.