Quotes About Perception

Philosophy appears to concern itself only with the truth, but perhaps expresses only fantasies, while literature appears to concern itself only with fantasies, but perhaps it expresses the truth.

The astonishment of life is the absence of any appearances of reconciliation between the theory and the practice of life.

The God to whom depth in philosophy bring back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them

REALITY, n. The dream of a mad philosopher. That which would remain in the cupel if one should assay a phantom. The nucleus of a vacuum.

If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.

Faith and philosophy are air, but events are brass.

My philosophy is inverted Platonism: the further a thing is from true being, the purer, the lovelier, the better it is. Living inillusion as a goal!

For most people the prohibitions are a good thing. But If you are able to maintain very powerful states of mind, then you'll find yourself in everything you see.

Philosophy, for me, is a way of relearning to look at the world, a world that is familiar to us, that we know, that is shared by all human beings and also by nonhuman beings.

Philosophy is talk on a cereal box.

The problem with emotion was that it was clearly something important, but-at least according to the old philosophy-it was something to overcome.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies

You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another truth.

He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything which has taken place from all eternity and everything which will be for time without end; for all things are of one kin and of one form.

Language is our body and our breath, our world and our thought, our perception and even out unconscious.

The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone

The more one is absorbed in so-called philosophy, the greater one's delusion and blindness.

There are no bad words. Bad thoughts. Bad intentions, and wooooords.

But this wealth of information produced little or no insight.

If the rest of your brain were conscious, it would probably regard you as the pointy-haired boss from Dilbert

When appearance and reality coincide, philosophy and literary criticism find themselves with nothing to say.

Most mistakes in philosophy and logic occur because the human mind is apt to take the symbol for the reality.

Sensual is everything that refers to the delight of the senses. And that's what artists do, is stimulate the senses in any possible way.