Quotes About Observation

Amateurs and little children may draw a rough picture of a horse that can be recognized to be the picture of a horse. But when the master artist draws a picture of a horse, those who see it not only recognize it as a horse, but they also exclaim, "How wonderful! It is like it is alive!" The artist paints action, reality, and life into the picture.

Night from a railroad car window is a great, dark, soft thing Broken across with slashes of light.

Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.

The are times When you may think that people are staring at you - They are.

Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe nothing's wrong and I'm just paranoid. I'll know when they come in. I'll see it in their faces.

There are times When you may think that people are staring at you - They are.

olhinhos de madeira, por que me fitam?

You are a serious person, but your seriousness is attached to what you do, not to what goes on outside you. You dwell upon yourself too much. That's the trouble. And that produces a terrible fatigue." But what else can anyone do, don Juan? Seek and see the marvels all around you. You will get tired of looking at yourself alone, and that fatigue will make you deaf and blind to everything else.

For instance, we need to look with our eyes to laugh," he said, "because only when we look at things can we catch the funny edge of the world. On the other hand, when our eyes see, everything is so equal that nothing is funny.

perceiving the world" entails a process of apprehending whatever presents itself to us. This particular "perceiving" is done with our senses and with our will.

The world doesn't yield to us directly, the description of the world stands in between.

All interpretation or observation of reality is necessarily fiction. In this case, the problem is that man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other purpose than to perpetuate the natural cycle of the species. It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for a human being. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.

Whenever it poured like this, Max felt as if time was pausing. It was like a cease-fire during which you could stop whatever you were doing and just stand by a window for hours, watching the performance, an endless curtain of tears falling from heaven.

Probablemente un extraño nos ve como somos, no como quiere creer que somos

People eyed one another suspiciously, and the streets smelled of a silence that knotted your stomach.

All interpretation or observation of reality is necessarily fiction.

La diferencia entre un crimen y una hazaña suele depender de la perspectiva del observador

No me pareció que fuese feliz en París, aunque me dio la impresión de que era de esas personas que no pueden ser felices en ninguna parte.

He would stare at you without saying a word, and you wouldn't know what he was thinking, and so, like an idiot, you'd tell him things it would have been better to keep to yourself.

All interpretation or observation of reality is necessarily fiction. In this case, the problem is that man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other purpose than to perpetuate the natural cycle of the species. It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for a human being. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake. As I said, pure biology.

L'avvocato conosceva bene la Storia e sapeva che il futuro si legge nelle strade, nelle fabbriche e nelle caserme molto più chiaramente che sulle pagine dei giornali.

digo. Se va y uno se cree a salvo, pero siempre vuelve, siempre vuelve... y nos ahoga. Yo lo veo todos los días en el instituto. Válgame Dios. Simios es lo que llegan a las aulas. Darwin era un soñador, se lo aseguro. Ni evolución ni niño muerto. Por cada uno que razona, tengo que lidiar con nueve orangutanes.

Todo lo que le sobraba de inteligencia le faltaba de sentido práctico. Su interés en el mundo real se concentraba en aspectos como la sincronía de los semáforos de la Gran Vía, los misterios de las fuentes luminosas de Montjuïc o los autómatas del parque de atracciones del Tibidabo.

Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as they wish us to be.