Quotes About Perception

Propaganda replaces moral philosophy.

Christianity was preached by ignorant men and believed by servants, and that is why it resembles nothing ever known.

If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.

Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.

Imagining something is better than remembering something.

What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.

Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark.

Perception is not something that happens to us, or in us. It is something we do.

Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features

To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.

We cannot sense without acting and we cannot act without sensing.

To be is to be perceived

Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.

What we learn from experience depends on the kind of philosophy we bring to experience.

You've got a degree in philosophy; so you think you're cleverer than me. But I'm not just some drama queen. Cause it's where you're at, not where you've been.

Psychology is still trying to explain the perception of the position of an object in space, along with its shape, size, and so on, and to understand the sensations of color.

How often one sees people looking far and wide for what they are holding in their hands? Why! I am doing it myself at this very moment.

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy but they were listening in gibberish.

Tell me what a person finds sexually attractive and I will tell you their entire philosophy of life. Show me the person they sleep with and I will tell you their valuation of themselves.

There is no perfect knowledge which can be entitled ours, that is innate; none but what has been obtained from experience, or derived in some way from our senses.

You asked me how to get out of the finite dimensions when I feel like it. I certainly don't use logic when I do it. Logic's the first thing you have to get rid of.

The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.