Quotes About Perception

I don't think a single one of them had any clear idea of time, as we at the end of countless ages have. They still belonged to the beginnings of time—

A diplomatic statement ... is a statement of which everything is true but the sentiment which seems to prompt it.

There is something after all in the world allowing one man to steal a horse while another must not look at a halter. Steal a horse straight out. Very well. He has done it. Perhaps he can ride. But there is a way of looking at a halter that would provoke the most charitable of saints into a kick.

I understand better the meaning of his stare, that could not see the flame of the candle, but was wide enough to embrace the whole universe, piercing enough to penetrate all the hearts that beat in the darkness.

the weakness of many tellers of tales who seem so often unaware of what their audience would best like to hear;

leading questions as to my acquaintances in the sepulchral city, and so on. His little eyes glittered

Perhaps life is just that...a dream and a fear.

I don't think a single one of them had any clear idea of time, as we at the end of countless ages have. They still belonged to the beginnings of time.

It's queer how out of touch with truth women are. They live in a world of their own, and there had never been anything

Mr Verloc was going westward through a town without shadows in an atmosphere of powdered old gold

I looked at him as you peer down at a man who is lying at the bottom of a precipice where the sun never shines.

Kummallista, miten naisilta puuttuu kosketus totuuteen. He elävät omassa maailmassaan, jonka kaltaista ei ole koskaan ollut eikä voi koskaan tulla. Se on kerta kaikkiaan liian kaunis, ja jos he sellaisen saisivat pannuksi pystyyn, se menisi pirstaleiksi ennen ensimmäistä päivänlaskua. Jokin kirottu tosiasia, jonka kanssa me miehet olemme luomisen päivästä asti eläneet kaikessa sovussa, ponkaisisi pystyyn ja kaataisi koko kapistuksen.

it is before you—smiling, frowning, inviting, grand, mean, insipid, or savage, and always mute with an air of whispering, 'Come and find out.' This one was almost featureless, as if still in the

Not the faintest sound of any kind could be heard. You looked on amazed, and began to suspect yourself of being deaf—then the night came suddenly, and struck you blind as well.

agent was lying flushed and insensible; the other, bent over his books, was making correct entries of perfectly correct transactions;

I had to keep a lookout for the signs of dead wood we could cut up in the night for next day's steaming. When you have to attend to things of that sort, to the mere incidents of the surface, the reality—the reality, I tell you—fades.

Gewiss," he said, and stood still holding up the candelabrum, but without looking at me. "Evident! What is it that by inward pain makes him know himself? What is it that for you and me makes him — exist?

the practical value of succes depends not a little on the way you look at it.

Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. I

Conceive you - that ass!

There are things you find nothing about in books

Tengo la sensación de estaros contando un sueño, pero inútilmente, porque ningún relato de un sueño puede transmitir la sensación del sueño, esa mezcla de absurdo, sorpresa y aturdimiento en un temblor de rebelión agónica, esa sensación de ser capturado por lo increíble, que constituye la esencia de los sueños...

A cloud of unreality hangs about men, events, discourses, purposes.

And Mrs Verloc, in her varied experience, had come to the conclusion that some foreigners could speak better English than the natives.