Quotes About Perception

Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.

The visible world, I think, is abstract and mysterious enough.

Prayers not felt by us are seldom heard by God.

If you don't say anything it can't become important, but if you say it everyone's ever after got to walk round it like a pile of rocks in the living room.

I still cannot tap on your walls and discover by the hollow or firm sounds which of your walls are merely decorative, and which ones hold everything up.

The worst men often give the best advice.

The ideal was the light; the real, the shadow.

Invincible ignorance always upset him, even though he knew he should just laugh at it.

Experience was something it was difficult to avoid, though many people had managed to keep it to a minimum.

a writing in the sand which all may read but few understand." - Philip Jose Farmer in 'Riders of the Purple Wage

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others.

Reality denied comes back to haunt.

Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find.

The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Parmenides taught that the only things that are real are things which never change... and the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Heraclitus taught that everything changes. If you superimpose their two views, you get this result: Nothing is real.

Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then.

Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.

truth is rarely the truth and the things you thought weren't true often turn out not to be false.

Dalia picked up her negligee. She didn't need my help, it wasn't very heavy.

Or, put another way, nothing evades our attention as persistently as that which we take for granted. That's

Me and Schopenhauer. Sometimes being German seems to come with some serious disadvantages.

She glanced at it and her eyes widened a few f-stops.

Is that what we are? Fools?" "Certainly. But at least we know we're fools. And in today's Germany, that counts as a kind of wisdom." •

the things you thought weren't true often turn out not to be false.