Quotes about Awareness
The scars of others should teach us caution.
— Saint Jerome
It is not our body which feels, not our mind which thinks, but we, as single human beings, who both feel and think.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
It sometimes happens and will sometimes happen again that I forget who I am and strut before my eyes, like a stranger.
— Samuel Beckett
If I was dead, I wouldn't know I was dead. That's the only thing I have against death. I want to enjoy my death.
— Samuel Beckett
Our vulgar perception is not concerned with other than vulgar phenomena.
— Samuel Beckett
Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
— Samuel Johnson
Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.
— Samuel Johnson
He that hopes to look back hereafter with satisfaction upon past years must learn to know the present value of single minutes, and endeavour to let no particle of time fall useless to the ground.
— Samuel Johnson
Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it
— Samuel Johnson
What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known.
— Samuel Johnson
The man can neither man, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels.
— CS Lewis
Well, sir, if things are real, they're there all the time." "Are they?" said the Professor; and Peter did not quite know what to say.
— CS Lewis