Quotes About Perception

i have no mind/just a series of clicks

Todo lo que nos rodea desde la cuna es un espectáculo pero la conciencia de ser espectáculo sólo se produce tras observar aquel cuerpo desnudo que por primera vez es observado desde el lado de la desnudez.

Nosotros estamos enseñados a que son malas ciertas cosas y de ahí que las aborrecemos y nos da asco de ellas; pero igual podíamos estar enseñados de otra forma.

Peter Blood judged her- as we are all prone to do- upon insufficient knowledge.

three degrees in the intelligence of mankind. To the first belong those who understand things for themselves by virtue of their own natural endowments; to the second those who have at least the wit to discern what others understand; and to the third those who neither understand things for themselves nor yet through the demonstrations which others afford them.

we are all too prone to judge—upon insufficient knowledge.

In Major Sands the intelligence was absent; but like most men in his case he was not aware of it.

But Guidobaldo scoffed at his qualms "Do you account my niece a peasant girl?" he asked. "Would you have her smirk and squirm at every piece of flattery you utter? So that she weds Your Highness what shall the rest signify?" "I would that she loved me a little," complained Gian Maria foolishly. Guidobaldo looked him over with an eye that smiled inscrutably, and it may have crossed his mind that this coarse white-faced Duke was too ambitious.

In doing this they are striking at the very foundations of the throne. These fools do not perceive that if that throne falls over, it is they who stand nearest to it who will be crushed.

And yet she was content to pair off with this dull young adventurer in the tarnished lace! It was, he supposed, the sort of thing to be expected of a sex that all philosophy had taught him to regard as the maddest part of a mad species.

Little girls think their fathers will save them. Women know better.

To become a great learner, you always need to become a keen observer.

Ambitions are like assholes, and they smell like flowers to the owner. I must be delusional. Give it up.

When I think of the future, I never see myself moving forward in time. I actually see time moving backward towards me.

The lie that is known to be a lie is half eradicated, but the lie that even intelligent persons regard as a sacred fact – the lie that has been inculcated around a mother's knee – is more dangerous to contend against than a creeping pestilence.

Children enter the world with a great deal of love and trust. They are not yet able to perceive good and bad, but they take everything as good and appropriate to absorb and unconsciously imitate.

All political parties in conjunction with media and business tycoons are making fools to people by playing drama over Covid-19 because there is no Corona virus in reality

Thoughts can exist... feelings can exist... but words do not always exist.

Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.

He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog.

Most events are inexpressible, taking place in a realm which no word has ever entered, and more inexpressible than all else are works of art, mysterious existences, the life of which, while ours passes away, endures.

The most visible joy can only reveal itself to us when we've transformed it, within.

Fame is, after all, only the sum of all the misunderstandings that gather around a new name.

Fame — the aggregate of all the misunderstandings that collect around a new name.