Quotes About Perception

I'm happy. Which often looks like crazy.

Tonight, I've finally learned to tell fantasy from reality. And, knowing the difference, I choose fantasy.

Why, in the Peking Opera, are women's roles played by men?...Because only a man knows how a woman is supposed to act.

Gallimard: You have to do what I say! I'm conjuring you up in my mind! Song: Rene, I've never done what you've said. Why should it be any different in your mind?

Judge: But why would that make it possible for you to fool Monsieur Gallimard? Please--get to the point. Song: One, because when he finally met his fantasy woman, he wanted more than anything to believe that she was, in fact, a woman. And second, I am an Oriental. And being an Oriental, I could never be completely a man.

Only a man knows how a woman is supposed to act

Age, mental illness, and failure are all in the mind. They put the pain there to let you know it hurts.

It was what I believed to be the humanity of the Marxist idea that made me what I was then; it is the inhumanity of what I have seen to be the Marxist reality that has made me what I am now.

Idealism kills," the philosopher Nietzsche had warned

It is the human wish to be told lies that keeps us where we are.

Maybe everyone was part con man. Maybe everybody was in the game, and Phil just knew better than anyone else how to play.

Vanda (as Dunayev): When she becomes herself--an individual. Thomas (as Kushemski): you only say that because you yourself are so individual. Vanda (as Dunayev): A man usually says that to a woman whose individuality he is about to undermine.

He might have thought white people was coyotes, but he still shared food with me. Long as people do that, I guess it don't matter what they think of you.

The lower our self-esteem in general—and how much the uncomfortable truth affects our self-image in particular—the more fearful we become.

Peter didn't want to change the world: he wanted to fully comprehend it.

Is the work of sun worshippers to honor those who think they can see the sun? Or to worship the sun?

When experience flies into realms that language cannot touch, honesty demands beyond-language.

Your strange!" she gushed. (She meant "You're," but Peter felt absolutely certain that she was one of those people who spell it "Your.")

an eye for an eye is smart, see, but love is dumb, lovers are fools.

Hmm. I'd never thought of that. Papa knew things I couldn't possibly know. He was in his thirties. He was old.

It's strange the way everybody has their own pet notion about Jesus, and nobody's pet notion seems to agree with anybody else's.

Did you hear about the baby just born that was both sexes? It had a penis and a brain. —overheard at the University of Oregon Medical School

We do not see into the world in which God lives, but He definitely sees into ours.

A critical person seldom recognizes his own shortcomings, only those of others (Matthew 7:3).