Quotes About Perception

Instead of shunning the darkness, we can face straight into it with an open mind. When we do that, the unknown changes. Fearful things become understandable and a truth is suggested: the enigmatic presence of the human mind winks back from the dark. WHITLEY STRIEBER, COMMUNION

We humans have a nasty habit of deciding to believe that things we don't actually understand are explained in some way that we make up. And the next thing we know, we're killing each other over these imaginings.

Very quietly, hidden away from the scorn and disbelief of the people who cling to the old, dying reality, a new one is being born, and rich, fulfilling relationships between the living and what we call the dead are at the center of it.

If I photograph you in the shadows, you become mysterious, perhaps unknowable. If I light you from above, so your eyelashes throw shadows on your cheeks, you could be a Hollywood film star.

The images enhanced, then negated each other. Nothing was fixed. Nothing is any one thing really, and isn't that the beauty of it all?

She believed, as others did, that a camera was good for more than recording the world. A photograph wasn't a response to something; it was something.

Read The Story of O . Convince yourself that it was in fact written by a woman or someone who thinks like a woman.

Men who sincerely abhorred the word Communism in the pursuit of common ends found that they were unable to distinguish Communists from themselves. . . . For men who could not see that what they firmly believed was liberalism added up to socialism could scarcely be expected to see what added up to Communism. Any charge of Communism enraged them precisely because they could not grasp the differences between themselves and those against whom it was made.

I used my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be.

I'm fighting the label of 'Black' actress simply because it's very limiting in people's eyes, especially people who are making movies.

We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.

Reality's kind of a medium, maybe greater than paper. We all want life to have the same texture that we read about in novels.

There is no use in trying to judge everything but the condition you are in right now. You are absolutely delusional if you think that you know anything right now.

The nature of the universe probably depends heavily on who is the actual protagonist. Lately I've been suspecting it's one of my cats.

She knew that many of my blood relatives had mental illness, but she couldn't or wouldn't connect the dots.

40 minutes in a city is nothing. But 40 minutes along a rural highway seems like an eternity. So we're driving along, and I ask my friend if we're there yet, and he says no, so I say, "Jesus. By the time we get there, the kid won't even be dead anymore." There is this pause in the car, and one of the other actors says, "Dude. Did you just quote your own movie?" I answered in the affirmative, and he says, "That was very cool.

Nature designed me for a life above The mere discordant dreams in which I live.

To attempt this would be like seeing without eyes or directing the gaze of knowledge behind one's own eye. Modern science can acknowledge no other than this epistemological stand-point.

Bazen bana aniden bask?n yapan a??r? duyarl?l?ktan öldü?ümü hayal ediyorum. O zaman bir acil doktor ko?up gelir, yapabilece?i tek ?ey öldü?ümü tespit etmek olurdu. Ölüm sebebi olarak da ?unu yazard? ölüm raporuna: A??r? duyarl?l?k.

Bir korku duyup duymad???m? anlamaya çal???yorum. Ama korku duyup duymad???m üzerinde dü?ünebiliyorsam, bu korku gerçek bir korku olamaz.

?nsan facialar? sadece izleyebilir ama anlayamaz.

?nsanlar elimizdeki özgürlü?ün, harekete geçme de?il, sadece konu?ma ve hayal kurma özgürlü?ü oldu?unun fark?nda de?il.

I know that what you call 'God' really exists, but not in the form you think; God is primal cosmic energy, the love in your body, your integrity, and your perception of the nature in you and outside of you.

Truth is dangerous when it concerns you.