Quotes About Perception

Always remember that night is the absence of light rather than the presence of darkness

When you 'own' a work of art it immediately loses its value

Truth is too dazzling to those who are spellbound by the mediocre

Neil Degrasse Tyson says that the universe is under no obligation to make sense to you. Surely it's scientists who are under no obligation to make sense.

You can never read too much into anything

The content of the glass is far more important than whether it is half full or half empty

Do clocks tell the time or does time tell the clocks?

2 + 2 = 5: the sum of all fears

Reality is symbolic. We build it using only the 26 symbols of the alphabet alongside images that speak to us on a linguistic level built from the 26 symbols of the alphabet.

Truth is quantum. It is beyond space and time. Relativity only proves this.

There are never any victims of the truth, unless you believe truth to be subjective, then of course, the truth has nothing but victims.

The answer to the question 'what is consciousness' is answered by the fact that there is a question

When I look at myself in the mirror, I wonder where everything has gone. Even the things I used to remember with so much clarity now seem dimmer. What happens to memory when it vanishes? What happens to events when everyone who remembers them ceases to remember?

A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by a common hatred of its neighbors.

Intuition is seeing with the soul.

The heart is an artist that paints over what profoundly disturbs it, leaving on the canvas a less dark, less sharp version of the truth.

We ignored the fact that many customers don't know what they want. We ignored that fact that even when they know what they want, they can't describe it. We ignored the fact that even when they can describe it, they often describe a proposed solution rather than the real need.

It's not always easy to see which end is up.

Originally, I had planned to study tourism and revolution, which seemed to me to name the two poles of modern consciousness--a willingness to accept, even venerate, things as they are on the one hand, a desire to transform things on the other.

Computers think that they are smarter than us. But they're not!

I don't understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced vegetarian diet is considered drastic, while it is medically conservative to cut people open and put them on cholesterol-lowering drugs for the rest of their lives.

I don't understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced, vegetarian diet is considered drastic, while it is medically conservative to cut people open.

If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times.

If the human soul is just a bright idea, does that make it exist any less?