Quotes About Perception

P]eople keep believing everywhere else, but in our society we have glorified disillusionment. Indeed, why should Europeans be the only ones on a metaphysical diet when the rest of the world continues to dine unperturbed at the richly decked tables of illusion?

Wer komplexe Wirklichkeit leugnet, gibt sich gern objektiv und bezichtigt die Problembewussten der Wirklichkeitsflucht und der Träumerei.

The beautiful in its pure form can safely be left to the idealists, while the half-beautiful and the ugly occupy empiricists.

In this distinctive world, elusive quantities flash at the edge of conventional logic.

When everything has become the center, there is no longer any valid center; when everything is transmitting, the allegedly central transmitter is lost in the tangle of messages.

The fifth point I would like to mention is how faith in disinterested perception in the modern sciences has been shaken, particularly by the events in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Physics, the previously unchallenged ruling discipline of the natural sciences, lost its innocence at the latest because of

mundo quiere ser engañado".

In the wall-less house of sounds, humans became the animals that come together by listening. Whatever else they might be, they are sonospheric communards.

Further, for once, I like the idea that people who think I'm a constant voice for the furthering of the imagination have to see that interest in a more materialistic fashion.

Glück malt man mit Punkten, Unglück mit Strichen", sagte sie. "Du musst, wenn du unser Glück beschreiben willst, ganz viele kleine Punkte machen wie Seurat. Und dass es Glück war, wird man erst aus der Distanz sehen.

If it's reality you want, I suggest you look out the window.

That's the thing with reality, he said, you can't repeat it to order, you can't correct it. Perhaps we should read more books.

Beautiful landscapes are no use for good paintings.

Man nahm den Wald nur wahr, wenn man sich in ihm befand.

Most people will tell you growing up means you stop believing in Halloween things - I'm telling you the reverse. You start to grow up when you understand that the stuff that scares you is part of the air you breathe.

Wolves and those who see them are shot on sight.

It was incomprehensible to Ricky that anyone could find Milburn boring: if you watched it closely for seventy years, you saw the century at work.

Because dead people are just like you and me, they still want things. They look at us all the time, and they miss being alive. We have taste and color and smell and feelings, and they don't have any of those things. They stare at us, they don't miss anything. They really see what's going on, and we hardly ever really see that. We're too busy thinking about things and getting everything wrong, so we miss ninety percent of what's happening.

You can tell a man is clever by his answers – you can tell a man is wise by his questions.

People don't want to believe that technology is broken. Pharmaceuticals, robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology - all these areas where the progress has been a lot more limited than people think. And the question is why.

Men think about women. Women think about what men think about them.

I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.

I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.

The important thing is not what nonsense the voices are saying, but what the voices are feeling.