Quotes About Perception

khalepa ta kala, greek. It means 'beauty is harsh'.

Beauty alters the grain of reality.

Beauty adds to goodness a relation to the cognitive faculty: so that "good" means that which simply pleases the appetite; while the "beautiful" is something pleasant to apprehend.

A five-year old is in a pretty good position to assess who is beautiful and who is not. Removed from the confusions of sexuality, he or she can judge a face as a face.

To a toad what is beauty? A female with two lovely pop-eyes, a wide mouth, yellow belly, and green spotted back.

The aesthetic serviceability of objects of beauty is not greatly nor universally heightened by possession.

Beauty has never been absolute and immutable but has taken on different aspects depending on the historical period and the country

A lot of directors idealize their leading ladies or turn them into these objects of sexuality and beauty.

Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty - excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable - should persist after the beauty is gone.

I don't understand beauty.

Beauty is not required. Beauty is accuracy's distraction.

Live the beauty or your own reality.

All people see fires, storms, explosions, or landscapes; but how many feel the flames, the lightnings, the whirlwinds, or the harmony? How many have an inner beauty that tinges their melancholy?

People give up the earth for beauty.

Beauty exists irrespective of financial circumstances.

Nothing is more ridiculous in old people that were once good-looking, than to forget that they are not so still.

Happiness comes from living in the moment, this moment, now, right here. If you are in obscure states of mind, you won't see what this moment is. You won't realize its beauty.

Not acknowledging that beauty is complex-that's the problem. I enjoy making it complex for people, because that's my world.

Where beauty ends is where the artist begins

I especially want to change the way we as Latinas see our beauty. I feel that there is a misinterpretation of what we're supposed to look like.

Beautiful things, when taste is formed, are obviously and unaccountably beautiful.

Only he with the hobbled foot fully knows the beauty of running. Only he with the severed ear can apprehend what the sweetest music must sound like. Our ailments complete us.

I really like where Tony Robbins says that we're all hypnotized to see beauty this one specific way, and it's true.

Music is proof that beauty is deeper than looks.