Quotes About Perception

Desde los doce años tengo la vista cansada, cansada de ver tanta estupidez alrededor

Como no tengo sueños no me doy de bruces con la realidad. Que funcione un semáforo ya me parece el colmo de los logros humanos

Si estudias a fondo la civilización, comienzas a deconstruirla, me explicó. Si le quitas las pátinas falsas, descubres el óxido. Si conoces al ser humano, dejas de amar al ser humano de manera ciega y complaciente.

Tardé tiempo en comprender que la libertad nunca está donde uno cree, que los barrotes de mi cárcel podían ser los muslos adorados, pero qué dulce cárcel.

Es fácil engañar a las madres cuando ellas quieren ser engañadas.

too many in the mobs "have eyes, but see not, ears but hear not, and they rush to their work of death as pitilessly as the tiger rushes upon his prey."11 The beast in the dark recesses of the human psyche was in the mob, not in the victim of ritual violence.

Körperlicher Schmerz ist immer Gegenwart, ist unmittelbar, Schmerz ist Jetzt. In der Erinnerung ist Schmerz schon weniger groß, retrospektiv wird er immer kleiner. Schon am nächsten Morgen war es eigentlich nicht mehr so schlimm. Der Schmerz läßt nach, er beherrscht nur den Moment.

A peculiar illusion of global omnipotence emerged in the United States after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

there was an almost terrifying lack of intelligence in his eyes.

She was never certain how long she wept, and it didn't really matter. It wasn't something to be measured by clocks, cut up into minutes and seconds.

It's not what you don't know that hurts you; it's what you think you know that isn't so.

The other side's version," Kolokoltsov thought. Even here, he's not willing to call it "the truth." Whoever said truth is the first casualty of war damned well knew what he was talking about!

The bigger the lie, apparently, the more likely the uninformed were to accept it

kinesthetic

I wish I knew what he called himself. I'm sure that treecats have their own names for themselves." "Me, too," Stephanie agreed, "and I bet they have their own names for us, too. I just hope mine isn't 'Source of Celery.

Falderson, he said quietly to Bahzell in passable Navahkan, is as stupid as the day is long. He craned his neck to gaze up at the hradani and shook his head. In fact, he's even stupider than I thought. You, sir, are the biggest damned hradani-no offense-I think I've ever seen.

need for you to infect him, since he already had a good sense

In fact, we have suffered under a variety of illusions about who and what we are that have kept us trapped in a prison of materialistic thought.

In this situation, the perception of reality is unitary, without ego and with a lack of any duality.

Only when the brain-mind system is free from interpretations, do the neuronal field and the pre-space structure become identical. In this situation, the perception of reality is unitary, without ego and with a lack of any duality. In this situation, pure consciousness and a feeling of an all-embracing unity and luminosity is [sic] perceived. All the systems that spiritual leaders have developed . . . have had the goal of arriving at this direct perception of the pure pre-space structure.

What I'm trying to say here is that all of my life I've made things that are like fragmented mirrors of the what I perceive to be the world. As far as I'm concerned the fact that in 1990 the human body is still a taboo subject is unbelievably ridiculous. What exactly is frightening about the human body?

A proper drink at the right time—one mixed with care and skill and served in a true spirit of hospitality—is better than any other made thing at giving us the illusion, at least, that we're getting what we want from life. A cat can gaze upon a king, as the proverb goes, and after a Dry Martini or a Sazerac Cocktail or two, we're all cats.

Mark felt eyes on him as tight as a sniper's aim.

He had been privy to much, and blind to even more.