Quotes About Perception

It is a grievous blunder to assume that understanding is always sympathetic. Very often we use the phrase "I understand" to mean something kindly, warm, and gracious. But there is an understanding that is hard, cold, minute, and deadly. It is the kind of understanding that one gives to the enemy, or that is derived from an accurate knowledge of another's power to injure. There is an

When hatred serves as a dimension of self-realization, the illusion of righteousness is easy to create.

Wherever it's spoken, Gaelic sounds like a combination of Swedish and Hebrew.

Margaret could not reply. Was he incredibly stupid, or did he understand her better than she understood herself?

My perspective on my mother has changed immensely. She was a lot taller when I was younger.

What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty.

Who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words

My organism is a link in the immense chain of cosmic cause and effect, and I can only perceive its real sense by considering it in its real place, in its real connection with all the rest, that is to say by considering it from the point of view of the Universe, in my capacity as universal man and not particular man, in so far as I am similar to all other men and not in so far as I am different.

Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true.

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.

Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible.

Soms verbeeld ik me dat ik de sneeuw kan ruiken. Ruik jij hem ook, Hans?' 'Ik geloof het wel, ja, het is een geur als van kristal,' zei ik. 'Heeft kristal dan een geur? ... Dat wist ik niet!' 'Nee, natuurlijk niet, maar als het een geur had zou het net de geur van sneeuw zijn.' 'Je bent een vreemde jongen,' lachte zij en voegde er na enig aarzelen spontaan aan toe: 'Een vreemde, lieve jongen.

Beiden schenen wij het gevoel te hebben de laatste bewoners te zijn van een uit haar voegen gerukte wereld waarover de tijd was stilgevallen.

Time seemed stationary, yet the painful pressure of time was constantly felt.

mistaking in his dull, never to be matured mind, her loneliness for respect of his strength and virility)

Vinnie loves me. He loves me. It. Wasn/t. Shit

There was a sky somewhere above the tops of the buildings, with stars and a moon and all the things there are in a sky, but they were content to think of the distant street lights as planets and stars. If the lights prevented you from seeing the heavens, then perform a little magic and change reality to fit the need. The street lights were now planets and stars and moon.

There was a sky somewhere above the tops of the buildings, with stars and a moon and all the things there are in a sky, but they were content to think of the distant street lights as planets and stars. If the lights prevented you from seeing the heavens, then preform a little magic and change reality to fit the need. The street lights were now planets and stars and moon.

I think the function of suffering is to let me know that my perception is skewed; what I'm doing is judging natural events in such a way that I am creating suffering within myself. For instance, you have pain over certain conditions, certain situations that occur. And if you just say 'ok, here I am, I'm going to experience the pain,' you don't suffer. The resistance and the degree of the resistance to the natural phenomenon of life causes tremendous suffering.

Time has to pass. But sometimes its so goddamn long. Sometimes it just seems to drag and drag and weigh a ton. And hang on you like a monkey. Like its going to suck the blood out of you. Or squeeze your guts out. And sometimes it flies. And is gone somewhere, somehow, before you know it was even here. As if time is only here to make you miserable. That's the only reason for time. To squeeze you. Crush you. To tie you up in knots and make you fucking miserable.

It is very easy to misunderstand a strange people, and very hard to understand them thoroughly.

To us power is, first of all, the ability to define phenomena, and secondly the ability to make these phenomena act in a desired manner.

The only difference I ever found between the Democratic leadership and the Republican leadership is that one of them is skinning you from the ankle up and the other, from the ear down.

The world thinks we idealize our friend, and tells us that love is proverbially blind. Not so: it is only love that sees.