Quotes About Perception

Es extraño lo lejos que están las mujeres de la realidad. Viven en un mundo propio que jamás ha existido y que nunca podrá existir. Es demasiado hermoso y, si quisieran construirlo, se vendría abajo antes de la primera puesta de sol. Cualquiera de las malditas cosas con las que los hombres llevamos conviviendo sin problemas desde el día de la creación se pondría de por medio y lo desharía en pedazos.

Imagination, the enemy of men, the father of all terrors.

Now who art thou, that on the bench wouldst sit In judgment at a thousand miles away, With the short vision of a single span?

But he heard the words as he might have heard the buzzing of a fly.

Mrs. Churchill, after being disliked at least twenty-five years, was now spoken of with compassionate allowances.

we must judge men not so much by what they do, as by what they make us feel that they have it in them to do. If a man has done enough, either in painting, music or the affairs of life, to make me feel that I might trust him in an emergency he has done enough.

For if ye had been able to see all, No need there were for Mary to give birth;

It's queer how out of touch with truth women are. They live in a world of their own, and there has never been anything like it, and never can be. It is too beautiful altogether, and if they were to set it up it would go to pieces before the first sunset.

Thou'rt wise, and knowest better than I speak. And as he is, who unwills what he willed, And by new thoughts doth his intention change, So that from his design he quite withdraws

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

As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.

For every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.

he takes things as he finds them, and makes enjoyment of them somehow or other

Juzga a un hombre tanto por sus amigos como por sus enemigos.

Joseph Devlin

Wilhelm was bombastic, overbearing, and contemptuous of what he perceived as softness in others. He described Czar Nicholas as "fit only to live in a country house and grow turnips.

When those who seem to be out competing oneself are foreigners, the inclination to say that they are engaging in unfair competition irresistible: to argue otherwise is to suggest that one simply doesn't measure up.

There is another way for moneyed interests to get what they want out of government: convince the 99 percent that they have shared interests. This strategy requires an impressive sleight of hand; in many respects the interests of the 1 percent and the 99 percent differ markedly. The fact that the 1 percent has so successfully shaped public perception testifies to the malleability of beliefs. When others engage in it, we call it "brainwashing" and "propaganda."1

the so-called sexual revolution, for example, "rather a prim term for the lurid carnival that actually took place.

the criterion a wealthy character sets for buying art is "that a picture should repel his sense and intelligence. Only then could he be sure of having bought a valuable modern work.

Donald Trump is worth I don't know how many millions, but his confident vulgarity will always keep him from being viewed as other than monstrously rich (perhaps more monster than rich), and if he were to be certified as upper class, many others put in that category would doubtless do what they could to find a new social class to fit into.

The English philosopher Michael Oakeshott notes that one of the signs of being cold today is that one knows what one doesn't have to know.

Vladimir Nabokov, contemning readers who identified with characters in fiction, remarked that the best readers identify with the artist.

As the saying goes not every conspiracy is a theory.