Quotes About Perception

He that had never seen a river imagined the first he met to be the sea; and the greatest things that have fallen within our knowledge we conclude the extremes that nature makes of the kind.

I remember being fascinated by the very nature of comedy from the age of 10; why is this funny, and that isn't?

The sentiments of men are known not only by what they receive, but what they reject also.

The primitive style makes nature look like stage scenery.

One reproduces only that which is striking; that is to say, the necessary. Thus, one's recollections and inventions are liberated from the tyranny which nature exerts.

The night Makes everything grotesque. Is it because Night is the nature of man's interior world?

Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.

The nature of the universe probably depends heavily on who is the actual protagonist. Lately I've been suspecting it's one of my cats.

Nature is usually wrong.

Nature has a counterpart, a representation of every interior mood and obscure perception of man.

I begin to see an object when I cease to understand it.

cats will be clean in a pigsty while pigs will be dirty in a marble hall.

Love is nature's LSD. You're going to see things that aren't really there.

I wouldn't have said that Anthony Eden was equipped by nature to deal with the situation in the world today. I would have said that he was portentous, sincere, honest and rather stupid.

What a woman thinks of women is the test of her nature.

A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.

What is pretty in nature is confined to the thin skin of the globe upon which we huddle. Scratch that skin, and nature's daemonic ugliness will erupt.

Beauty is nature's way of acting at a distance.

When Sir Joshua Reynolds died All Nature was degraded

The silence of a shut park does not sound like country silence: it is tense and confined.

No black man wants a blue-eyed black child, and no white man wants a kinky-haired white child. Nature didn't mean it to be that way.

These births and deaths are changes in nature which we are mistaking for changes in us.

Brand a man as a thief and no one will ever hire him for honest labor - he will be a hardened robber within weeks. The brand does not reveal a person's nature, it shapes it.

That is the logical tight-rope on which we have to walk if we wish to interpret nature.