Quotes About Perception

We're living under the illusion that we have the power to determine what to do with it.

The mind is the soul's eye, not its source of power. That lies in the heart, in other words, in the passions.

Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.

Photography has the power to undo your assumptions about the world.

I think the perception of wealth and power is that things just become easier and easier when in reality as you raise the stakes things become more stressful.

The soul, in its power, is present in some way in the entire universe, because it apprehends substances which are not included in the body in which it lives, although they are related to it.

nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility

We must see with our own eyes and not accept any laid-down tradition as if it had some magical power in it.

Man made God in his own image.

Power always sincerely, conscientiously, de très bon foi, believes itself right. Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Contrast increases the splendor of beauty, but it disturbs its influence; it adds to its attractiveness, but diminishes its power.

For imagining lies within our power whenever we wish . . . but in forming opinons we are not free . . .

Inanimate objects sometimes appear endowed with a strange power of sight. A statue notices, a tower watches, the face of an edifice contemplates.

I hope we all feel more comfortable acknowledging the power of image in our perceived successes and our perceived failures.

You gain power by pretending to be weak. By contrast, you make people feel strong. You save people by letting them save you.

It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.

To one man a stream is so much water-power, to another a rendezvous for lovers.

Evil has only the power we give it.

When he has the power to see things detached from self-interest and from the insistent claims of the lust of the senses, then alone can he have the true vision of the beauty that is everywhere.

Power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand.

profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you.

The nature of power is such that it can never be understood.

One can hear all that's going on in the street. Which means that from the street one can hear what's going on in this house.

Look, calling somebody in a wheelchair handicapable doesn't all of a sudden give them the power to climb stairs or the ability to grab Ho-Hos off the top shelf.