Quotes About Perception

We are so easily baffled by appearances And do not realize that these stones are one with the stars.

Words are, of themselves, meaningless. We invest them with meaning, and, over time, come to feel as if certain words mean certain things. We construct dictionaries and then think they tell us what words mean, but dictionaries are mere historical documents, museums of meaning...

As I was walking up the stair, I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today. I wish, I wish he'd go away.

The very helplessness of the public which makes it necessary for them to consult the experts also makes it impossible for them to judge how expert they are.

Things that appear unlikely, impossible, or paradoxical from one point of view often make perfectly good sense from another.

Nothing coats the world bad or good, but thinking makes it so.

I sometimes wonder if the "dead" are not more present, more comfort, more here than most of the living.

I wish" assumes that I know what is the opposite of my present experience.

The tools of the mind can be wrongly used, but the mind possesses no wrong tools.

Do I avoid looking a stranger in the eyes because I don't want to make him uncomfortable, or do I turn my eyes so he can't look into me?

It seems that the truth is needed today is always a lie by tomorrow.

If we knew everything that was ever said about us and if at the same time we took every word at face value, we would remain friends with no one.

Now that I know that I am no wiser than anyone else, does this wisdom make me wiser?

What an absurd amount of energy I have been wasting all my life trying to find out how things 'really are', when all the time they weren't.

We feel understood by people who like us; misunderstood by people who don't -- and those feelings are probably realistic.

At about 8.15 p.m. Cargill thought he saw something pass through one of the gaps in the boom net defences and rowed across to the centre portion of the nets, near the Western Gate, to investigate. He saw what appeared to be two oxygen bottles floating just below the surface and decided they belonged either to a mine or a submarine.

As I was sitting in my chair, I knew the bottom wasn't there, Nor legs nor back, but I just sat, Ignoring little things like that.

As I was going up the stairI met a man who wasn't thereHe wasn't there again todayI wish, I wish he'd stay away.

El imaginario nos interpela, no es tan primitivo, simple o fantástico como creemos.

The layman's Constitutional view is that what he likes is Constitutional and that which he doesn't like is un-Constitutional. That about measures up the Constitutional acumen of the average person.

He's dreaming with his eyes open, and those that dream with their eyes open are dangerous, for they do not know when their dreams come to an end.

women would be wonderful if we could fall into their arms instead of their hands.

Corto à lui même: Ce serait bon de vivre dans une fable. Bouche Dorée à Corto: Oh oui!… Mais toi tu vis continuellement une fable et tu ne t'en aperçois plus. Lorsqu'un adulte entre dans le monde des fables, il ne peut plus en sortir. Le savais-tu?

Ma tu vivi continuamente nelle favole, solamente non te ne accorgi più. Quando un adulto entra nel mondo delle fiabe non riesce più ad uscirne. Non lo sapevi?