Consciousness Quote by Fernando Pessoa

The West can teach the East how to get a living, but the East must eventually be asked to show the West how to…

— Tehyi Hsieh

“Amidst this paradoxical existence emerges a dichotomy – a world dying outside, while we, ensnared in our paradisiacal illusion, merely survive without truly living.”

— Ryan Gelpke

“The world is an illusion, but it is an illusion that we must take seriously, because it is as real as it goes, and…

— Aldous Huxley

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities…

— Henry David Thoreau

I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of…

— Norman Mailer

I'm big into Eastern concepts. The horror of life, the love of children, the whole phantasmagoria - it's all meaningless. Be still, and see…

— Harry Dean Stanton

“As the Western world has invested every aspect of its waking life with visual order, with procedures and spaces that are uniform, continuous and…

— Marshall McLuhan

“We need to be virtually bludgeoned into detachment from our daily lives, our habits and mental laziness, which conceal from us the strangeness of…

— Eugène Ionesco

OH, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great Judgment…

— Rudyard Kipling

Life is a journey through a foreign land.

— Anonymous

Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt…

— Albert Camus

Recognizing the absurdity of life is also a way of surviving.

— Noa Ben Artzi-Pelossof