Quotes About Perception

Cualquier pensamiento dañino, en la mente de cualquier hombre, puede en cualquier momento destruir el mundo.

Cuando nos deshacemos de la ilusión, es decir de la idea de lo que es el otro, comienza la real posibilidad de que el amor suceda, porque el amor sólo se da entre dos personas de carne y hueso y no entre dos ilusiones.

No vivimos en la realidad sino en nuestra imagen de ella.

Cuentan que desde entonces, muchas veces uno se encuentra con la furia, ciega, cruel, terrible y enfadada, pero si nos damos el tiempo de mirar bien, encontramos que esta furia que vemos es sólo un disfraz y que detrás del disfraz de furia, en realidad está escondida la tristeza.

Gerçek benim düÅŸündüÄŸüm gibi deÄŸil. Olmas? gerektiÄŸi gibi deÄŸil. Bana olaca??n? söyledikleri gibi deÄŸil. Yar?n olaca?? gibi deÄŸil. Benim d???mdaki gerçek neyse odur.

I've always thought that there are no couples in love nor any love triangles, only an Indian file where you love the person in front of you and that person in turn loves the one in front of him, and so on, and where the one behind me loves me and that one is loved by the one behind him and so on, but always loving the one whose back is turned to us. And the last one in line isn't loved by anyone

You who read me, are You sure of understanding my language?

You can't measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.

I have no way of knowing whether the events that I am about to narrate are effects or causes.

We accept reality so readily - perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.

I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me...

I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.

There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.

It only takes two facing mirrors to build a labyrinth.

He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.

A book is a physical object in a world of physical objects. It is a set of dead symbols. And then the right reader comes along, and the words—or rather the poetry behind the words, for the words themselves are mere symbols—spring to life, and we have a resurrection of the word.

Los espejos y la cópula son abominables, porque multiplican el número de los hombres.

Toda mi vida modifica el libro que estoy leyendo.

Fame is a form - perhaps the worst form - of incomprehension.

The machinery of the world is far too complex for the simplicity of men.

Mirrors and copulation are abominable, since they both multiply the numbers of men.

With relief, with humiliation, with terror, he understood that he too was a mere appearance, dreamt by another.

There is no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.

The years go by, and I've told the story so many times that I'm not sure anymore whether I actually remember it or whether I just remember the words I tell it with.