consciousness Quotes

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.

I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.

It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.

I'm interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society. We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it's quite a satisfying thing to do, isn't it?

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.

Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world.

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.