Quotes About Perception

once you recognize that every human model of reality is fundamentally unreal, then it all just comes down to which one works best.

synesthete.

Stars, everywhere. So many stars that I could not for the life me understand how the sky could contain them all yet be so black.

Brains are survival engines, not truth detectors.

Maybe your empathy's just a comforting lie, you ever think of that? Maybe you think you know how the other person feels but you're only feeling yourself, maybe you're even worse than me. Or maybe we're all just guessing.

How do you say 'We come in peace' when the very words are an act of war?

but you had a point about language. When you get right down to it, it's a work-around. Like trying to describe dreams with smoke signals. It's noble, it's maybe the most noble thing a body can do but you can't turn a sunset into a string of grunts without losing something.

Not even the most heavily-armed police state can exert brute force to all of its citizens all of the time. Meme management is so much subtler; the rose-tinted refraction of perceived reality, the contagious fear of threatening alternatives.

If believing absurd falsehoods increase the odds of getting laid or avoiding predators, your brain will believe those falsehoods with all its metaphorical little heart.

But pattern-matching doesn't equal comprehension.

What's the difference between being dead, and just not knowing you're alive?

Deeds are stronger than words, and children are not biblical scholars. As long as they see girls and women treated as inferior by their faith, that's what they will learn, no matter what their holy book says.

If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning.

He raised one eyebrow. "Now I have made you angry with me. I gave you credit for more sense. It is true that she is prettier than you, and nobody in his right mind would deny it. Mere prettiness, however, is not always sufficient to attract a man of sense and experience. What you have, and what Miss Yarcombe lacks and will probably always lack, is character. A doll may be pretty. A woman should be something more.

Vede insieme l'uno e l'altro polo, Le stelle vaghe e lor viaggio torto; E vedi, 'I veder nostro quanto e corto. (You see both poles at once, the travelling stars in their winding courses, and you see just how limited our seeing really is.)

Qué quiere que le diga? Gente tranquila, más pobre que las ratas. Aunque, tal como va el mundo, llamamos tranquilos a los que tienen miedo.

Throughout the length and breadth of the world, the smart ones sharpen their minds in the schools and universities. In Greece, they sharpen them on the suckers. The more suckers there are around, the more smart ones there are.

Mire, aquí en Grecia tenemos la costumbre de llamar importante a cualquier mediocridad, y obra maestra a cualquier librucho vulgar: así pretendemos convencernos de que valemos algo

Ce râzi, domnule? întreb? nemul?umit Gogu Apostolescu. De ce râzi? Râzi de mine? - Sigur c? da, puiule, zise Titel Negruzzi. Dar de cine vrei s? râd? De mine? Ar fi nedemn s? râd de mine tot eu; eu m? respect, mo?er.

E?ti al dracului de trist, m? Gogule. - Sunt, dar nu se vede din cauz? c? sunt mereu vesel, zise Gogu râzând.

Bazen etraf?m?zda o kadar esrarl? bir hâdise olur ki ince teferuat?na kadar bunu sezeriz, fakat hiçbir ?ey idrak etmeyiz; ruhumuzun içinde ikinci bir ruh her ?eyi anlar, fakat bize anlatmaz, böyle korkunç i?aretlerle bizi muamman?n derinliklerine atar ve bo?ar.

Alakalar?m?z?n yüz bin ?ekline isim bulam?yoruz ve "sevmek" deyip ç?k?yoruz. Onun için ne kadar suistimale u?ruyor bu kelime.

Öyle bir ya?tayd?m ve öyle bir mizaçtayd?m ve çocuklu?umda o kadar az oyun oynam??t?m ve aldatmas?n? o kadar az ö?renmi?tim ki, yalan bana suçlar?n en a??r? gibi geliyordu; ve bir yalan söylendi?i zaman insanlar?n de?il, e?yan?n bile buna nas?l tahammül etti?ine ?a??yordum.

Ah, insanlar niçin her ?eyi anlam?yorlar? Be? dakika on dakika yar?m saat kendilerini unutsalar, kendilerini kar??lar?ndakinin yerine koysalar, tam onun gibi-fakat hiç eksiksiz ve tam- onun gibi duysalar, her ?ey ne kadar yerli yerinde olacak. Hay?r! ?lla ki z?ddiyetler, öfkeler, yanl?? anla??lmalar, inatlar, ?üpheler, hakim olmak arzular?…