Quotes About Perception

If nothing is the way it seems, then this life is just a haunted dream.

Philosophy... is the creative perception by the spirit of the meaning of human existence.

Nothing is easier than to simplify life and them make a philosophy about it. The trouble is that the resulting philosophy is true only of that simplified life.

When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when a man who's speaking no longer understands, it's metaphysics.

Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.

The menu is not the meal.

We are often taught to look for the beauty in all things, so in finding it, the layman asks the philosopher while the philosopher asks the photographer.

We categorize as we do because we have the brains and bodies we have and because we interact in the world as we do.

I see the beard and cloak, but I don't yet see a philosopher. -Video barbam et pallium; philosophum nondum video

Any materialist philosophy must take as its point of departure the existence of a material world that is independent of our minds.

The laying of fish on the embers, the taste of the fish, the feel of the texture of bread, the round and the half-loaf, the grain of a petal, the rain-bow and the rain.

I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa

There is your truth and there is my truth. As for the universal truth, it does not exist.

I'm not superstitious. I'm a witch. Witches aren't superstitious. We are what people are superstitious of.

By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice the manufacturer's icon on top: an apple with a bite out of it.

I only seem negative to the fortunate. That's because I show the less fortunate that they aren't less fortunate after all.

The cynic sees only cynicism, the depressive can taint creation with one glance

Who you are isn't tied solely to what you say, even though it may feel that way to you now.

The old philosophy was that parents, especially mothers, caused their kids to become schizophrenic. Now we see that when a kid is this crazy, he'll make the family begin to seem crazy.

It has been said that metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct.

We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.

Death is nothing to us: for that which is dissolved is without sensation; and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us.

Such a man, truly wise, creams off Nature leaving the sour and the dregs for philosophy and reason to lap up.

When I read philosophy or neuroscience papers about consciousness, I don't get the sense we're any closer to understanding it than we were 50 years ago.