Quotes About Perception

When you actually know the question, the answer is every­where, and you can see it in anything you observe.

Age is never so old as youth would measure it.

Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.

I am. I was. I am not. I never am.

It is good that man should accept at face value the cheats of sense and snares of flesh, and through the fogs of sentiency pursue the lures and lies of passion.

Some sorts of truth are truer than others.

A personal philosophical experience of moving out of a world of sense and arriving, dazed and disoriented for a while, into a universe of being.

Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter.

In the experience of yogins who do not perceive things dualistically, the fact that things manifest without truly existing is so amazing that they burst into laughter.

The highest exercise of imagination is not to devise what has no existence, but rather to perceive what really exists, though unseen by the outward eye--not creation, but insight.

A young critic is like a boy with a gun; he fires at every living thing he sees. He thinks only of his own skill, not of the pain he is giving.

The men that women marry, And why they marry them, will always be A marvel and a mystery to the world.

A stiff letter galls one like a stiff shirt collar -- whilst a sheet garnished here and there with a careless blot -- and here and there a dash -- but in the main full of excellent matter, is like a clever fellow in a dirty shirt whom we value for the good humour he brings with him and not for the garb he wears.

If a woman shows too often the Medusa's head, she must not be astonished if her lover is turned into stone.

More and more do I feel, as I advance in life, how little we really know of each other. Friendship seems to me like the touch of musical-glasses--it is only contact; but the glasses themselves, and their contents, remain quite distinct and unmingled.

What makes sense in the ivy-covered ivory tower may be shrill extremism in America's neighborhoods and workplaces.

Some people talk to themselves, and some people write, and somehow society has decided that one gets committed and one gets a paycheck.

In America, scientists believe one thing, and regular people believe another. Scientists believe that's because regular people are stupid.

My dog is usually pleased with what I do, because she is not infected with the concept of what I "should" be doing.

Es celos lo que imagino, que no es celos lo que sé: cosa que pienso que fue y que en mi daño adivino.

Todo es vana arquitectura, porque dijo un sabio un día que a los sastres se debía la mitad de la hermosura.

Maravilla ser solía, pero ya lástima doy; que de extremo a extremo voy y desde ser a no ser, pues sol me llamaba ayer y hoy sombra mía aun no soy.

Creer que el cielo en un infierno cabe

Nise: Bien lo merece Eliodoro, griego poeta divino. Celia: ¿Poeta? Pues parecióme prosa. Nise: También hay poesía en prosa.