Quotes About Perception

Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.

Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

It's always the badly dressed people who are the most interesting.

I don't like dreams or reality. I like when dreams become reality because that is my life.

I would like to say to people, open your eyes and find beauty where you normally don't expect it.

Fancy rules over two thirds of the universe, the past, and future, while reality is confined to the present

Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.

In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact.

If only we could know what was going on in a baby's mind while observing him in action we could certainly understand everything there is to psychology.

What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see.

A response is thus a particular case of interaction between the external world and the subject, but unlike physiological interactions, which are of a material nature and involve an internal change in the bodies which are present, the responses studied by psychology are of a functional nature and are achieved at greater and greater distances in space (perception, etc.) and in time (memory, etc.) besides following more and more complex paths (reversals, detours, etc.).

We shall simply say then that every action involves an energetic or affective aspect and a structural or cognitive aspect, which, in fact, unites the different points of view already mentioned.

Nel, after throwing a stone onto a sloping bank watching the stone rolling said, 'Look at the stone. It's afraid of the grass

We shall adopt an analogous formula, with the reservation that feelings and cognitive configurations do not depend solely on the existing "field," but also on the whole previous history of the acting subject.

But our lives were not as they seemed, were they, Sophia? No one's life ever is.

He had been so friendly, and he had shown clearly that he did not think me in the least stupid--or, if he did, he liked it.

What was the good of restrained laughter; it made a mockery of the entire practice of laughing.

Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.

Todellinen vihollinen löytyy poikkeuksetta linjojen takaa, omasta selustasta, ei koskaan edestä eikä myöskään sisältä. Jokainen ammattisotilas tietää tämän, ja kaikissa armeijoissa kaikkina aikoina on esiintynyt kiusausta jättää muodollinen vihollinen sikseen ja kääntyä ympäri selvittämään tilit todellisen vihollisen kanssa kerta kaikkiaan!

These old eyes of mine barely see your hands on the table. Illuminated by this candlelight, they look like yellow spiders. Still, they're finely wrought Jewish hands. Whatever they hold, shall not easily be relinquished.

All great art is abstract.

There is no realism in American films. No realism, but something much better, great truth.

Painters know that material needs are relative; and that the satisfactions of the mind are absolute.

I often want to cry. That is the only advantage women have over men—at least they can cry.