Consciousness Quote by Simone de Beauvoir Download Open image “Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.” — Simone de Beauvoir ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Consciousness Knowledge Oneself Philosophy of Mind Self Self consciousness Stories
Self-knowledge is like lost innocence; however unsettling you find it, it can never be 'unthought' or 'unknown'. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
“Part of the answer is that self-knowledge has never been one of our strong points. To the contrary, even the most elemental knowledge of… — John A. Sanford Copy Share Image
We can know nothing of humankind without knowing something of ourselves. Self-knowledge is the property of those people whose passions have their full play,… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
“Self-knowledge is not clarity or transparency or knowing how everything works, self-knowledge is a fiercely attentive form of humility and thankfulness, a sense of… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
Knowing oneself is not so much a question of discovering what is present in one's self, but rather the creation of who one wants… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
There is no self-knowledge except historical self-knowledge. No one knows what he is if he doesn't know what his contemporaries are. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Self-knowledge is not the knowledge of a dead self, self-knowledge is the knowledge of the process of the self. It is an alive phenomenon.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The time that one gains cannot be accumulated in a storehouse; it is contradictory to want to save up existence, which, the fact is,… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Many things would be changed for Americans if they would only admit that there is ill-luck in this world and that misfortune is not… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.” — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
However gifted an individual is at the outset, if his or her talents cannot be developed because of his or her social condition, because… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
In fact, people seem to be tired of fiction now. There are so many other ways of exploring humanity - by ethnology, psychoanalysis, and… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“Magari mi troverai ridicola, ma mi disprezzerei se non osassi esserlo mai” — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
from one minute to the next the present is merely an honorary past. It must be filled unceasingly anew to dissemble the curse it… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“I now argue that entry into Upper Palaeolithic caves was probably seen as virtually indistinguishable from entry into the mental vortex that leads to… — James David Lewis-Williams Copy Share Image
How wonderful it would be to scatter words as they rise to consciousness, to let them lie where they fall. — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
“People and situations always show us what we need to see and learn about ourselves, and when we take responsibility for our own feelings,… — Eliza Mada Dalian Copy Share Image
With the realization of God comes all power. If the little wave knew that behind it is the great ocean, it could say, "I… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
We do not want to be reminded that it is we, the indigenous people, who are poor and exploited in the land of our… — Steven Biko Copy Share Image
It is proposed that a form of free dialogue may well be one of the most effective ways of investigating the crisis which faces… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
The purpose is to be in gratitude forever. Live with applied consciousness, prosperity will break through the walls, flood you with it. You do… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
“No one has any right to tell you that the way you perceive yourself is wrong. Because by doing so, they also discourage the… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
A language possesses utility only insofar as it can construct conventional boundaries. A language of no boundaries is no language at all, and thus… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
So many people are passive participants in their very short time of having a consciousness, and those who aren't inspire me. Like Malala Yousafzai… — Dylan Gelulla Copy Share Image
“The vision teller tells the vision to unguarded minds' of prey. The programmed.” — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
