Quotes About Awareness

Each only hears the sound to which his innermost is attuned. Speech of September 3, 1933 in Nuremberg

Só se pode lutar pelo que se ama, só se pode amar o que se respeita e respeitar o que pelo menos se conhece.

The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes

Only the Jew knew that by an able and persistent use of propaganda heaven itself can be presented to the people as if it were hell and, vice versa, the most miserable kind of life can be presented as if it were paradise. The Jew knew this and acted accordingly. But the German, or rather his Government, did not have the slightest suspicion of it. During the War the heaviest of penalties had to be paid for that ignorance. -- Mein Kampf , Chapter 10

In reading Scripture, we feel in the presence of Him unto whose eyes all things are naked and open.

Have you ever stopped to think how weird it is that you have to take malaria pills to go to places where the population doesn't take them, or that you get injections for yellow fever, cholera, typhus and hepatitis? None of the locals are immune to these things. They just suffer them. Drug companies can find prophylactics for rich Western holiday-makers, but not for people who live with disease the other 50 weeks of the year.

A cocked .38 doesn't feel the same as an unprimed revolver. The frame tightens differently, the trigger is on a hair and this tension is communicated to you and the people around you.

So here you are, in your twenties, thinking that you'll have another 40 years to go. Four decades in which to live long and prosper. Bad news. Read the papers. There are people dropping dead when they're 50, 40, 30 years old. Or quite possibly just after finishing their convocation. They would be very disappointed that they didn't meet their life expectancy. I'm here to tell you this. Forget about your life expectancy.

According to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, "She was duller than himself, and consequently did not find out that he was so.

I believe that every artist has a responsibility to use their platform to raise awareness about issues that are important to them.

There was dead silence when we finished the scene. Then Bill spoke. "You know," he said, "sometimes in life, we THINK before we speak." I was mortified. But now I knew three things about acting: pick up your cues, don't wear hats, and think before you speak.

Blink, and you'll miss your treasure. Blink again, and you'll realize that the truth you thought was completely hidden, has materialized some ungainly part of it revealed under new conditions.

matters less than your consciousness about that life.

Leventhal's last quote is the one that rolled around in my head during the hour-long drive home: "Confidence," he said, "is what you have before you understand the problem.

The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.

What we see, we see and seeing is changing

For now, poetry has the capacity - in its own ways and by its own means - to remind us of something we are forbidden to see.

The problem, unstated until now, is how to live in a damaged body in a world where pain is meant to be gagged uncured ungrieved over. The problem is to connect, without hysteria, the pain of anyone's body with the pain of the world's body.

Every act of becoming conscious (it says here in this book) is an unnatural act

The moment the feeling enters the body is political.

There is nothing North Americans seem to fear so much as manipulation, probably because at some level we know that we belong to a deeply manipulative system.

The moment when a feeling enters the body is political.

because in times like these to have you listen at all, it's necessary to talk about trees.

Personally, I find it very hard to absent myself from any situation, due to overwhelming self-consciousness. There's always a voice in my head passing comment and making sure nothing can be enjoyed for what it is.