Consciousness and Self-Knowledge
William Burroughs
Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage. William S.
Alan Watts
You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.
Sócrates
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
Edward Young
At thirty, a man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; In all the magnanimity of thought Resolves, and re-resolves; then dies the same.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Be but organic harps diversely fram’d, That tremble into thought, as o’er them sweeps Plastic and vast, one intellectual breeze, At once the Soul of each, and God of All?
William Butler Yeats
I must lie down where all the ladders start, In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart.
Edmund Burke
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The primary imagination I hold to be the living Power and prime Agent of all human Perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM.
George Bernard Shaw
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.
