Quotes About Perception

Love makes clear the eyes that else would never see: "Love makes blind the eyes to all but me and thee.

1. The picture must, by its mere arrangement, make you look at it. 2. Having looked—see! 3. Having seen—enjoy! The

Dentro de poco ya no los veremos. Y dentro de otro poco, los volveremos a ver».16

The English seem to think drinking wine is like committing adultery, something you do rarely and abroad.

So, rather than appear foolish afterward, I renounce seeming clever now.

In this passionately social world, loneliness dogged the spirit. People were constantly "getting together," but they never really got there…For everyone searched his neighbor's eyes for the image of himself, and never saw anything else. Or if he did, he was outraged and terrified.

Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others.

Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert.

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.

Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.

The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.

if oxen and lions and horses had hands and could draw, they would represent their gods as oxen and lions and horses.

En realidad, muy de acuerdo con nuestra tradición mental, en la cual las palabras no sirven para nombrar las cosas sino para disfrazarlas, liberal y conservador no eran palabras que denotaran una filosofía, sino etiquetas que diferenciaban a los mismos protagonistas en distintos momentos de la rebatiña.

Siempre es que, realizadas por otros, nuestras mismas acciones parecen más sucias

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.

How many husbands and wives must believe they have fallen out of love because their hearts no longer race at the sight of their beloveds!

We use concepts like "consciousness"---"mind"---"personality," but we don't really know yet what these things are.' He was shaking his head. 'Not really. Not at all.

Henri Bergson thought the principal function of the brain was to filter out most of reality so that we could focus on the tasks of earthly life," he said. "When the filter is weakened by a powerful drug, what we see is not delusion but the truth.

But I'll tell you something, Father; you give me Regan's identical twin: same face, same voice, same smell, same everything down to the way she dots her i's, and still I'd know in a second that it wasn't really her! I'd know it! I'd know it in my gut and I'm telling you I know that thing upstairs is not my daughter! I know it! I know!

Bill, the point is that right in the middle of this horror there's a creature called man who can see that it's horrible. So where do we come up with these notions like 'evil' and 'cruel' and 'unjust'? You can't say a line looks a little bit crooked unless you've got a notion of a line that's straight.

it made me wonder whether the brothers karamazov would have ever come down to us as a classic if its title had been the karamzov brothers.

It's all ka-ka, saying mind is really brain. Sure, my hand is in my pocket. Is my pocket my hand? Every wino on M Street knows a thought is a thought and not some cells or chazerei going on in the brain. They know that jealousy is not some kind of game from Atari.

Cuántos maridos y mujeres —exclamó con tristeza— creerán que ya no se aman porque sus corazones no se conmueven al verse! ¡Ah, Dios querido!

why would an eye want to form?