Quotes About Awareness

You will get to where you are going by remembering who you are…

The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities.

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency -- the belief that the here and now is all there is.

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even specially, the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts. The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities.

True openness is the accompaniment of the desire to know, hence of the awareness of ignorance. To deny the possibility of knowing good and bad is to suppress true openness.

Tocqueville did not believe that the old writers were perfect, but he believed that they could best make us aware of our imperfections, which is what counts.

There is no such thing as doing nothing. There is no such thing as neutral or uninvolved. At every moment, social life involves all of us.

As a system, patriarchy encourages men to accept male privilege and perpetuate women's oppression, if only through silence.

Contrary to rationalism, there are no a priori concepts; but contrary to empiricism, there are axiomatic concepts about which we can be certain; contrary to both schools, perception is not awareness of images, impressions, or sense data, but of objects that exist independent of our awareness of them.

O homem pode enganar -se, deixar -se iludir, sem que, por isso, seja louco.

O presente é positivo, ocupemo-nos dele primeiro, que o futuro por sua vez virá.

Si el hombre conociera el porvenir descuidaría el presente.

While meditating we are simply seeing what the mind has been doing all along.

Whenever you think about smoking you must see it as a lifetime's chain of filth, disease, fear, misery and slavery.

Client: "Could you teach me to have an occasional drink and not get hooked again?" Me: "Of course I could. I could even teach you to take the occasional dose of arsenic." Client: "Why on earth would I want you to do that?" Me: "Exactly!

It is good to know and use the DSM definitions, but not to reify or worship them.31,32

The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.

How deceived do you have to be to be blind and naked and not know it? This isn't a subtle thing.

Humor expands our limited picture frame and gets us to see more than just our problem.

Know yourself who you are, Know your inner potentials, motivations and purposes, Know what blocks you.

Well, first of all, we've got to get away from being offended by the truth. We've seen a 41 percent increase in food stamp recipients across the United States of America since President Obama was sworn in in January 2009. That has nothing to do with black, white, Hispanic or whatever. It's a fact, and we need to, you know, deal with that.

Nothing guarantees our freedom. Deny it often enough and one day it will be gone, and we'll not know how or when.

Sometimes fear isn't a bad thing. It keeps you alert and aware.