Quotes About Perception

Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?

The state of man's mind, or the elementary phase of mind which he so far possesses, conforms precisely to the state of the world as he so far views it

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it.

If a man who can't count finds a four leaf clover, is he lucky?

If we believe something does not exist unless we measure it, then we put aside: love, feeling, intuition, art and philosophy.

People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think.

You see, the deaf have an intimacy with silence. It's there in their dreams.

Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.

Between living and dreaming there is a third thing. Guess it.

I got an A in philosophy because I proved my professor didn't exist.

When I study philosophical works I feel I am swallowing something which I don't have in my mouth.

Instead of art I have taught philosophy. Though technique for me is a big word, I never have taught how to paint. All my doing was to make people to see.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can't see anything.

Look poor, think rich.

Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see.

The cause of laughter is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real project.

A vulgar man, in any ill that happens to him, blames others; a novice in philosophy blames himself; and a philosopher blames neither, the one nor the other.

All philosophies are mental fabrications. There has never been a single doctrine by which one could enter the true essence of things.

The spectacle is at the same time the mirage of self in the mirror of things.

Imagination is the other end of Reality.

Fine art is in the last consequence, philosophy expressed visually.

Everyone has some kind of philosophy, some general worldview, which to men of other views will seem mythological.