Quotes About Perception

It is always Dark. Light only hides the Darkness. —DANIEL KIAN MC KIERNAN

Children picked up things on a different level than adults. They hadn't spent much time building up defense mechanisms and rationalizations for all the shitty things that happen in the world. Kids take everything straight, no chaser. It's later on we all start bullshitting ourselves. Dominic

People never ask people doing serious music, 'Do you ever think about doing funny music?'

One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don't realize there's a lot of craft behind the comedy.

In her experience, prefacing a statement with "To be honest" or "To tell you the truth" is a sure sign you're telling someone else what to believe—such as what was "good" for her, in this instance.

Like every part of his life was about cultivating an identity. He couldn't just be normal.

What is a thousand years Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns.

What is ten thousand years? Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns.

il faut apprendre, par observation et raisonnement, à reconstituer le vrai des choses d'après les apparences

En réalité, les motifs qu'on a d'être heureux ou malheureux sont sans poids; tout dépend de notre corps.

A truth is not something that is constructed in a garden of roses.

If you aren't completely appalled, then you haven't been paying attention.

Don't inhibit your hearing. Auditory cues can be early warning signs. You can hear gun shots even when you can't see the gunman. Sit in places that offer the best visibility of exits and others. Watch people for cues and indicators that they may be up to no good. Trust your intuition. That "gut" feeling is there for a reason, and you need to pay attention to it.

That first undifferentiated potential perception, that first principle of experience, is said to correspond to pure, absolute enjoyment, the innermost nature of existence.

As man has managed to turn himself into a player of the world, the sole thing that can now prevent him from using all his possibilities of playing, is to make him believe that he did not invent the rules of the game.

The world only hides on thing, says Clément Rosset, and that is that it has nothing to hide. It is sufficient onto itself for its own unveiling. Meaning only appears as the result of the representations and interpretations man may give to it.

A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are.

The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.

Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying in essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved.

We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease.

Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.

The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.

Do not hold as gold all that shines as gold.

AP. : Peut-on proclamer que nous restons neutres ? De Gaule : Il ne faut rien proclamer du tout. Et d'abord c'est faux ! Nous aidons les Marocains en leur fournissant des armes. Nous aidons les Algériens en mettant à leur disposition notre aérodrome de Colomb-Béchar. Nous les aidons à s'entre-tuer. Pourtant, il faut bien faire comme si nous étions neutres. [Le 23 octobre 1963]