Quotes About Perception

... we can bear with great philosophy the sufferings of others, especially if we do not actually see them.

In the western philosophy you can't perceive infinities at every moment. It's not there to do.

When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy.

Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it!

Das Ganze der Erfahrung gleicht einer Geheimschrift und die Philosophie der Entzifferung derselben. The whole of experience is like a cryptograph, and philosophy is like the deciphering of it.

Mrs. Wiggs was a philosopher, and the sum and substance of her philosophy lay in keeping the dust off her rose-colored spectacles.

I think philosophy is all about lived experience, which is to say life in the streets, life in a variety of different contexts.

You say, it's dark. And in truth, I did place a cloud before your sun. But do you not see how the edges of the cloud are already glowing and turning light.

To be a philosopher, just reverse everything you have ever been told...and have a sense of humor doing it.

It's ever been the way of the man of science or philosophy. Most folks stay in the dark and then complain they can't see nothing." – Snipes (185)

The world is mere change, and this life, opinion.

Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.

Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the 'common man.'

If an angel were to tell us about his philosophy, I believe many of his statements might well sound like '2 x 2= 13'.

The body learns through exaggeration and contrast

Our failure to see and access the pure joy and radiance of life is owning to a lack of awareness. In any situation there is beauty. Even at the moment of one's death there is beauty.

I'm a slumdog philosopher.

Sexuality, for the person who practices tantra, is a marvelous way to experience illusion. Illusion is just another way of seeing things. There are no illusions because there is no self.

In metaphysics, the notion that earth and all that's on it is a mental construct is the product of people who spend their lives inside rooms. It is an indoor philosophy.

Virtue is relative at best, there's nothing worse than a sunset when your driving due West.

The great critic … must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things.

One person will eat meat and it will lower their attention field. Another person won't even be affected by it because they're not in the state of mind whereby they'll be affected by it.

The basic philosophy of stoicism is that you have nothing real external to your own consciousness, that the only thing real is in fact your consciousness.

Don't try and understand this with your mind. There will be no absolute knowing, no certainty in these thoughts and philosophies and ideas.