noésis noéseós

But if life itself is good and pleasant (...) and if one who sees is conscious that he sees, one who hears that he hears, one who walks that he walks and similarly for all the other human activities there is a faculty that is conscious of their exercise, so that whenever we perceive, we are conscious that we perceive, and whenever we think, we are conscious that we think, and to be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious that we exist... Aristotle on Plato "knowledge of knowledge"

A cliche

It is a cliché that most clichés are true, but then, like most clichés, that cliché is untrue. Stephen Fry