Quotes About Perception

For heaven's sake, dear, he's a man. Men aren't very good at analyzing themselves, you know.

The very fact that you can even wonder if you're going crazy means you very likely aren't crazy. Real nuts don't question their own nuttiness. They think they're the only normal ones. That's why they're nuts.

Charlotte never lied to others, so she made the classic mistake of the habitually honest—she assumed that other people did not lie to her, at least not to her face. In her world, people were innocent of deliberate deceit until proven otherwise, which was, of course, way too late. Even

Termite can imitate almost anything," I say. "Things just sound more like music in his version. Sounds instead of words.

and the slapping feet of the men that follow the box. They have no faces and they feel with the whiskers of dogs.

you gave up any right to comment on the subject when you threw my ring back in my face, didn't you?" She (Elly) stiffened."I didn't throw it back. I just sort of set in down on your desk." He (Cooper)shrugged."We each have our own version of events, Want some fries?

I've focused for hypnos in the past, and they didn't feel

I'm a mirror. If you're cool with me, I'm cool with you, and the exchange starts. What you see is what you reflect. If you don't like what you see, then you've done something. If I'm standoffish, that's because you are.

Listen to that--just listen to that. It puffs, it pants, it wheezes, it yanks its damn carcass up step by step--who'd ever believe that on stage it's a young girl.

With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.

Inspiration is a trick that poets have invented to give themselves importance.

Rien n'est vrai que ce qu'on ne dit pas...

Dessert without cheese is like a beauty with only one eye

Az ízlés birodalmának is megvannak a maga vakjai és süketei.

At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves.

So-called "realist" photography does not capture the "what is." Instead, it is preoccupied with what should not be, like the reality of suffering for example.

The war was won on both sides: by the Vietnamese on the ground, by the Americans in the electronic mental space. And if the one side won an ideological and political victory, the other made Apocalypse Now and that has gone right around the world.

There are only a few images that are not forced to provide meaning, or have to go through the filter of a specific idea.

We will never know if an advertisement or opinion poll has had a real influence on individual or collective wills, but we will never know either what would have happened if there had been no opinion poll or advertisement.

The simulacrum now hides, not the truth, but the fact that there is none, that is to say, the continuation of Nothingness.

One may dream of a culture where everyone bursts into laughter when someone says: this is true, this is real.

Reality itself is too obvious to be true.

All we have left of liberty is an ad-man's illusion.

When the real is no longer what it was, nostalgia assumes its full meaning.