All Quotes

Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. ”

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. ”

Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different. ”

The 'I think' which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the 'I breathe' which actually does accompany them. ”

Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly. ”

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being. ”

Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it. ”

Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake. ”

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. ”

Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories. ”