Quotes About Perception

I suppose you're young,' she conceded, managing once again to make youth sound like impetigo

Men are mystifying creatures. For instance why do all men think their penis is a panacea for all the world's problems?

The things you see when you're not carrying a gun

The fashion industry is based on these images that don't exist.

I think one of the biggest things that affects young women is when they hear their mothers using fat talk. It's like, "If my thin mom is calling herself fat, what does she think I am? What am I?"

Much of my success as a Supermodel was not because I looked better than other models but that I marketed myself in a way that stood out.

Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic erotic women. Why can't we just be the sexy American girl next door?

Perception is reality, because that is their truth.

The girl whose eyes are three centimeters too far apart and whose mouth is four centimeters too wide. Not that you'd break out a ruler, but when you look at her, it's enough to make you say that something is definitely … off. Come

Studies have shown that women who are perceived as more attractive make 5 percent more at work and even get higher grades in school.

a face only a mother could love"?

Some day I will show all the [people] who say I was a success just because of my pretty face. Sometimes I wish I had a really bad car accident so my face would get smashed up and I'd look like Eddie Constantine.

il ne suffit pas de prendre en soi-même une décision pour acquérir la dignité ; il faut que cette décision soit suivie d'un acte qui en découle, et qui soit perceptible par les autres (même s'ils ne sont pas là pour le percevoir). Telle serait donc notre première définition de la dignité.

Las palabras son a las cosas lo que el deseo es al objeto de deseo.

Les vertus héroïques sont plutôt estimées par des hommes, alors que les vertus quotidiennes sont le fait autant, sinon plus, de femmes (mais il est vrai que les qualités physiques requises sont différentes ici et là).

Further, Columbus believes not only in Christian dogma, but also (and he is not alone at the time) in Cyclopes and mermaids, in Amazons and men with tails, and his belief, as strong as Saint Peter's, therefore permits him to find them.

The framing of what there is by the mind is what you call beauty.

You say that I am living in illusion. But poverty, work, war, they are not illusions. Are they? In what sense am I being deluded? What you experience through your separative consciousness is an illusion. You can't say that falling bombs are an illusion. It is not an illusion, only your experience of it is an illusion. The reality of the world that you are experiencing now is an illusion. That is all I am trying to say. If you say that

You don't actually know anything about that person or that thing, except what you are projecting on that object or the individual. The knowledge you have about it is the experience. It goes on and on. That's all. What that really is, you have no way of knowing.

You are not looking at anything; you are not in contact with anything living, as long as you use your thoughts to understand and experience anything.

You can't experience anything except through thought. You can't experience your own body except through the help of thought. The sensory perceptions are there. Your thoughts give form and definition to the body, otherwise you have no way of experiencing it. The body does not exist except as a thought. There is one thought. Everything exists in relationship to that one thought. That thought is "me." Anything you experience based on thought is an illusion.

Thought creates the space between the thinker and his thoughts, and then tells himself, "I am looking at my thoughts.

Nobody knows anything about life and there is NO point in defining life.

If the word is not the thing what the hell is it? Without the word you have no way of experiencing anything at all. Without the word you are not separate from whatever you are looking at or what is going on inside of you. The word is the knowledge. Without that knowledge you don't even know whether it is pain or pleasure that you experience, whether it is happiness or unhappiness, whether it is boredom or its opposite.