Quotes About Perception

Hay más realidad en una imagen que en una palabra

Of all the forms of m?y? that of woman is supreme.

Eternity isn't some later time. Eternity isn't some long time. Eternity has nothing to do with time. Eternity is that dimension between here and now, where thinking and time cuts out. If you won't get it here, you won't get it anywhere

The Hindus, for example, don't believe in special revelation. They speak of a state in which the ears have opened to the song of the universe. Here the eye has opened to the radiance of the mind of God. And that's a fundamental deist idea.

The crux of the curious difficulty lies in the fact that our conscious views of what life ought to be seldom correspond to what life really is.

is there not some point of wisdom beyond the conflicts of illusion and truth by which lives can be put back together again? That is a prime question, I would say, of this hour in the bringing up of children.

Significant images render insights beyond speech, beyond the kinds of meaning speech defines. And if they do not speak to you, that is because you are not ready for them, and words will only serve to make you think you have understood, thus cutting you off altogether.

person who has had a mystical experience knows that all the symbolic expressions of it are faulty. The symbols don't render the experience, they suggest it. If you haven't had the experience, how can you know what it is? Try to explain the joy of skiing to somebody living in the tropics who has never even seen snow. There has to be an experience to catch the message, some clue—otherwise you're not hearing what is being said. MOYERS:

As Kant said, the thing in itself is no thing. It transcends thingness, it goes past anything that could be thought. The best things can't be told because they transcend thought. The second best are misunderstood, because those are the thoughts that are supposed to refer to that which can't be thought about. The third best are what we talk about. And myth is that field of reference to what is absolutely transcendent.

Schopenhauer sagely remarks in his paper on The Will in Nature, "we are sunk in the sea of riddles and inscrutables, knowing and understanding neither what is around us nor ourselves.

It took me a long time to get around to marriage, principally because I felt that women always wanted to have fun, and that was not my interest at all. It would interfere with my reading. That's really the truth.

Your product has a voice — and it's talking to your customers 24 hours a day.

An American is a man with two arms and four wheels.

Silence is a text easy to misread.

Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That's the problem.

You know, when once you've discovered a secret yourself, it always seems as if it must be so obvious to everybody else.

The more he looked inside the more Piglet wasn't there.

It is a good thing for a physician to have prematurely grey hair and itching piles. The first makes him appear to know more than he does, and the second gives him an expression of concern which the patient interprets as being on his behalf.

I perceive that I am neither a planter of the backwoods, pioneer, nor settler there, but an inhabitant of the Mind, and given to friendship and ideas. The ancient society, the Old England of New England, Massachusetts for me.

Hope lies to mortalsAnd most believe her,But man's deceiverWas never mine.

And silence sounds no worse than cheersAfter earth has stopped the ears.

Oh tarnish late on Wenlock Edge,Gold that I never see.

The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.

But in me he saw at once a weak, yielding will. You can feel it in people at a mere glance—there's no need of words.