Quotes About Perception

If an historian were to relate truthfully all the crimes, weaknesses and disorders of mankind, his readers would take his work for satire rather than for history.

Un libro de verdad afecta en mayor o menor grado a lo que pensamos y, por tanto, a lo que somos. Cambia en cierta medida, el mundo que consiste, en parte, en la idea que tenemos de él, ya lo adorne y agrande, ya consuma su ruina No conozco libro, cuando ha importado, que no haya hecho temblar el suelo de la existencia, dislocado la visión pobre, burda que yo tomaba, antes de que la quebrantara, por la realidad.

The more I see of the country, the less I feel I know about it. There is a saying that after five years in the north every man is an expert; after ten years, a novice.

Speaking, when you have something to say, is like looking. But who looks? If people could see properly, and see whole, they would all be painters. And it's because people have no idea how to look that they hardly ever understand.

The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.

il subissait la dictature de l'apparence.

Taste classifies, and it classifies the classifier.

O pedante compreende sem sentimento profundo, enquanto o mundano usufrui sem compreender.

Si consideramos la hipótesis de que la gente no es leída, se entienden muchas cosas que no se han comprendido durante mucho tiempo pensando que ha sido leída.

esthétique telle qu'elle la décrit naïvement.

révolution du regard qui s'accomplit dans et par la révolution de l'écriture suppose et suscite à la fois une rupture du lien entre l'éthique et l'esthétique, qui va de pair avec une conversion totale du style de vie. Cette conversion, qui s'accomplit dans l'esthétisme du style de vie

A comunicação é instantânea porque, em certo sentido, ela não existe.

Male domination is so rooted in our collective unconscious that we no longer even see it.

The mind is a metaphor of the world of objects.

Un paysage n'est pas seulement un état d'âme, c'est l'âme elle-même, si l'on veut entendre par là que mille liens m'attachent toujours à tout ce que je vois, et que sans cesse j'ai, devant des vues nouvelles, le sourd et ardent sentiment que je les connais, que je les connaissais de tout temps.

On croit que les événements importants arrivent à une allure solennelle, un peu comme le Tsar débarquant en visite officielle. Mais ensuite on découvre que ces fameuses "choses importantes" se présentent de biais, furtivement. Et beaucoup plus tard encore, on ne sait plus si ces choses sont vraiment importantes.

It is not things that trouble us," as Epictetus said, "but our judgment about things

breathe the intellect which embraces all things as if it were the surrounding air....

Se habla a sí mismo, pero tenemos la impresión de que se dirige a cada uno de entre nosotros.

Illusions of grandeur are not the same as visions of greatness.

I was so young but started having these visions and impressions of the world.

Over and over, since I was very young, I see things that are about to happen. You can call it heightened intuition; you can call it visions... I see it as a gift. It's my role to give people a heightened awareness, to show that basically we can change the world.

The two candidates have very different visions of America. Donald Trump's is very dark: Things are not going well. There are dark days ahead unless you make a change, and he's the one to fix it.

My girlfriend says I have frontal-lobe epilepsy. I have visions. They have slowed down as I've gotten older, but I still have them.