Quotes about Awareness

Usually we regard as meaningful that which can be expressed, and as meaningless that which cannot be expressed. Yet, the equation of the meaningful and the expressible ignores a vast realm of human experience, and is refuted by our sense of the ineffable which is an awareness of an allusiveness to meaning without the ability to express it.

Time and space are interrelated. To overlook either of them is to be partially blind. What we plead against is man's unconditional surrender to space, his enslavement to things. We must not forget that it is not a thing that lends significance to a moment; it is the moment that lends significance to things.

Happy is he who is aware of the mysteries of his Lord.

The most incomprehensible fact is that we comprehend at all.

With information we are alone; in appreciation we are with all things.

We must not forget that it is not a thing that lends significance to a moment; it is the moment that lends significance to things.

Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.

A moment of insight is a fortune, transporting us beyond the confines of measured time.

God is not in things of space, but in moments of time.

Six days a week the spirit is alone, disregarded, forsaken, forgotten.

It is in deeds that man becomes aware of what his life really is.

This view had been the fundamental feature of his image of the world and the basis of his conduct in life. It justified the structure of his economic existence. He could permit his livelihood to be assured by his brother's strenuous and dangerous work, so that Maimonides could devote himself to realizing his plans in peace and quiet. This view also had a place in his self-confidence and probably aroused a certain awareness of the relationship of providence to his own life.