Quotes About Perception

Our habits of thought are stronger than strait-waistcoats. We walk about with habit-coloured spectacles before our eyes, and see everything as we are accustomed to see it.' He

Reality, in truth is … what is the word? Reality is ironic .

they believed Africans were more industrious and less dangerous than enslaved people born into the revolutionary world of the Americas.

Alas, a fiction can fly around the world before the truth has managed to pick the sleep from its eyes in the morning. Many

how much of what seemed known and well established is, in fact, unknown and steeped in ambiguity.

You know, when you don't go on TV and talk about how many women you sleep with, some people in Hollywood, that are supposedly 'in the know ' start whispering that you're gay. If I were gay, I wouldn't be ashamed to admit it, but I'm not.

That was excellent! I mean, it didn't do anything, but it looked really cool!

Some of them are wearing skirts that I'm pretty sure are supposed to be belts.

I mean, who wants to date a guy who thinks a girl who can't operate a fruit cup is attractive?

On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.

On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity. (Powers of Mind, 1975)

The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination.

The basic and possibly most radical contention of this book is that these interrelated shifts in our historical perception require a reframing of the history of the Third Reich, a reframing which has the disturbing effect both of rendering the history of Nazism more intelligible, indeed eerily contemporary, and at the same time bringing into even sharper relief its fundamental ideological irrationality.

Reality is a lovely place, but I wouldn't want to live there.

Maybe some are so busy waiting, they forget what indescribable beauty is right there in front of them.

Reality is a lovely place, but I wouldn't wanna live there.

Most people don't like to be confronted with an actual fact-of-life because it's difficult to metabolize. A painting of a bowl of fruit is much easier. It's for the same reason why we don't like going to the doctor. The diagnosis and x-rays are too honest. This is what creates the perception that contemporary art is shocking or suspicious."

Nations, like men, are wary of truth, for truth is too often not beautiful.

In Wirklichkeit war ich schon wach, aber ich hielt noch die Augen zu, um die Traaumgestalten noch länger vor meiner Seele zu behalten.

21Finally, don't pay attention to everything that is said, so that you may not hear your slave reviling you; 22for well you remember* the many times that you yourself have reviled others.

Not that I was morbidly obese or anything. But I guess I was hanging on the hope that one day I might accidentally whittle down to my inner toothpick.

But he's got your way of making me lean into peace whenever I see red.

Never feel like you need to visit him, ever?" "I see him every morning in the mirror. I think of him as the ghost version of me. And who needs to visit your own ghost?