Quotes About Perception

Life is a loom, weaving illusion.

We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.

Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing.

Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.

We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility.

Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.

I don't have a philosophy. I have a camera.

Pessimism is an emotion not a philosophy.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

The map is not the territory.

The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.

Take the time to smell the roses. Sooner or later, you'll inhale a bee and die.

The mind is inherently embodied. Thought is mostly unconscious. Abstract concepts are largely metaphorical.

Words are the clothes thoughts wear.

People with a psychological need to believe in marvels are no more prejudiced and gullible than people with a psychological need not to believe in marvels.

The gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood.

Our understanding is correlative to our perception.

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

Philosophy begins with the understanding that you cannot just observe or experience and then report what you see, because how you conceptualize and symbolize alters experience.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

I have never seen either angels or goddesses, so I am not interested in painting them.

My life belongs to me, my love belongs to those who can see it.