Quotes About Perception

Henry believes he knows exactly when the ninety-four-year-old woman in the neighbouring apartment dies. He hears her turn off. Until now he has not been able to distinguish her from her appliances – her washing machine, her vacuum cleaner, her radiators, her television. But the moment she gives up the ghost he detects the cessation of a noise of which he was not previously aware. A hum, was it? A whirr? Impossible to say. There is no word for the sound a life makes.

Ludzkie istoty rzadko s? tak niebezpieczne jak wtedy, kiedy rozp?ywaj? si? nad dobroci? w?asnych intencji.

many people prefer the comfort of fantasy to the harshness of reality. They seem to reason this way: 'How can I arrange my beliefs so I'll feel most comfortable?' rather than arranging them to agree with reality.

He who trains his tongue to quote the learned sages will be known, far and wide, as a smart-ass.

Do days exist without calendars? Does time pass when there are no human hands left to wind the clocks?

Richard Bernstein's Beyond Objectivism and Relativism

As I have heard it put, a critical thinker is good at distinguishing gold from bullshit

It's worth noting that the assumption that something can't happen has the potential to make it happen, since people who believe it can't happen will engage in risky behaviour, and thus alter the environment.

Remember: blonde, brunette, and redhead are not personality types.

Gregor Samsa awoke one morning to find himself turned into an enormous symbol.

Any scene in which a character is shown waking up in bed or getting into bed is deeply suspect, unless there is someone new in bed with her.

The world is full of mostly invisible things,And there is no way but putting the mind's eye,Or its nose, in a book, to find them out,Things like the square root of EverestOr how many times Byron goes into Texas,Or whether the law of the excluded middleApplies west of the Rockies.

Poetry is a means of seeing invisible things and saying unspeakable things about them.

Because You Asked about the Line between Prose and Poetry" Sparrows were feeding in a freezing drizzle That while you watched turned to pieces of snow Riding a gradient invisible From silver aslant to random, white, and slow. There came a moment that you couldn't tell. And then they clearly flew instead of fell.

We don't often remember our lives in original chronologies, do we? More in associative patterns

Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.

A well-built brand is the culmination of intangibles that do not directly flow to the revenue or profitability of a company, but contribute to its texture. Forsaking them can take a subtle, collective toll.

Skepticism has come to be synonymous with sophistication, and glibness is mistaken for intelligence.

Empathy and emotions do not equate to knowledge or true understanding about others' circumstances.

Even though Coach Brantford was a young guy, he was 24 years old, he had an old school mentality. He probably got that from his dad.

I always resented the label of 'shock jock' that the press came up with for me. Because I never intentionally set out to shock anybody.

Most of the things I do are misunderstood. Hey, after all, being misunderstood is the fate of all true geniuses, is it not?

Look at you.

Again and again, I am aware that the Light not only illumines but it also burns .