Quotes About Perception

The truthful man ends up realizing that he always lies.

Today a man of knowledge might well feel as though he were God transformed into an animal.

The man who sees little always sees less than there is to see; the man who hears badly always hears something more than there is to hear.

Civilization merely develops man's capacity for a greater variety of sensations, and ... absolutely nothing else.

Can a man of perception respect himself at all?

Suppose, gentleman, that man is not stupid.

One could never judge a man without seeing him close, for oneself.

... you simply can't imagine what men will say!

I just don't think men fancy me.

Your love is all that I was waiting for and now that I feel it ...oh man...what I thought was not even quarter of what I thought it really was.

The first man to see an illusion by which men have flourished for centuries surely stands in a lonely place.

For in the end, the irreality function functions as well in the face of man as in the face of the cosmos. What would we know of others if we did not imagine things?

Being with a man incapable of telling a lie – a whole lot of awesome. Being with a man who could taste when you lied – sucked the big one.

Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay, than they think.

He who knows himself properly can very soon learn to know all other men. It is all reflection.

Nothing reveals a man's character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense.

As soon as you know a man to be blind, you imagine that you can see it from his back.

A good part of the fame of most celebrated men is due to the shortsightedness of their admirers

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

I prefer the man who calls his nonsense a mystery to him who who pretends it is a weighed, measured, analyzed fact.

What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances.

The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone need be stronger than the coping stone.

An art thief is a man who takes pictures.

There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles.