Quotes About Perception

Corto Maltese:"L'Eldorado di Raleigh, la Città d'Oro di Orellana, il regno favoloso di Cibola del Coronado... sono fatti della stessa sostanza dei sogni. E' sorprendente vedere uomini di cultura come lei interessarsi a simili storie..." Levi Colombia:"I sogni sono d'oro, la realtà è di piombo...

Depth must be hidden. Where? On the surface.

Reality lies in the greatest enchantment you have ever experienced.

Was weiß denn ich vom Menschenleben? Bin freilich scheinbar drin gestanden, Aber ich hab es höchstens verstanden, Konnte mich nie darein verweben.

Ein sonderbar Ding ist die Zeit. Wenn man so hineinlebt, ist sie rein gar nichts. Aber dann auf einmal, dann spürt man nichts als sie.

As circunstâncias têm menos poder de nos fazer felizes ou infelizes do que se acredita; mas a antecipação das circunstâncias futuras na fantasia têm um poder imenso

I don't think I'll ever escape the fact that I don't belong anywhere in particular. I've often dreamed about going back to Nigeria, but that's a very romantic notion. It's a hideous country to go to in reality.

Everyone who made love the night before Was walking around with flashing red lights On top of their heads—a white-haired old gentleman, A red-faced schoolboy, a pregnant woman Who smiled at me from across the street And gave a little secret shrug, As if the flashing red light on her head Was a small price to pay for what she knew.

Perceptions employed as a base for building up positive concepts are the origin of all ignorance (avidya);[1] perception that there is nothing to perceive — that is nirvana, also known as deliverance.

When mental processes (hsin) arise, then do all dharmas (phenomena) spring forth; and when mental processes cease, then do all dharmas cease likewise.' The

Teas vary as much in appearance as the different faces of men.

La bellezza delle cose esiste nella mente di chi le osserva

Goethe, the great poet-philosopher, once wrote: "I find more and more that it is well to be on the side of the minority, since it is always the more intelligent.

You call a star a star, and say it is just a ball of matter moving on a mathematical course. But that is merely how you see it. By so naming things and describing them you are only inventing your own terms about them. And just as speech is invention about objects and ideas, so myth is invention about truth.

Rarely," said Dax to himself, "does a soldier see with naked eyes. He is nearly always looking through lenses, lenses which are made of the insignia of his rank.

Soon he would see war. Jis romanticism and inexperience insulated him from the thought that he might feel it, too.

The Edge... There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run, but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant.

Pakistan's unfortunate history may justify the description of Pakistan as being 'insufficiently imagined', but imagination is by definition not a finite process. An entity that is insufficiently imagined can be reimagined

Pakistanis are a pious, warm and hospitable people,' wrote Richard Leiby, a Washington Post reporter who spent a year and a half there, lamenting that the news from Pakistan did not reflect that. He noted, however, that the bad news about Pakistan was not untrue. In his view, 'Just like average Americans', the simple Pakistani people 'pay the price of their leaders' magnificent mistakes'.

In the process of moulding a nation on the basis of Islam, Pakistan has ended up earning for itself the reputation for being home to the world's angriest Muslims.

In Pakistan, a perception has been officially cultivated that anyone who offers facts, statistics or opinions that do not coincide with the national narrative does so at the behest of Pakistan's many external enemies.

Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us.