Quotes About Perception

Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing. They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety.

One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well.

A arte mais fina não reside na habilidade das construções lógicas, mas em certo contacto que se espera manter sempre com o real.

Actually, the gap between say Plato or Nietzsche and the average human is greater than the gap between that chimpanzee and the average human.

Corner Seat Suspended in a moving night The face in the reflection train Looks at first sight as self-assured As your own face - But look again: Windows between you and the world Keep out the cold, keep out the fright; Then why does your reflection seem So lonely in the moving night?

Why not admit that other people are always Organic to the self, that a monologue Is the death of language and that a single lion Is less himself, or alive, than a dog and another dog? With vision but it is vision builds the eye; And in a sense the children kill their parents But do the parents die? And the beloved destroys like fire or water But water sculpts and fire refines And if you are going to read the testaments of cynics You must read between the lines.

It is only when memory is filtered through imagination that the films we make will have real depth.

They all believed that ideas are not "out there" waiting to be discovered, but are tools—like forks and knives and microchips—that people devise to cope with the world in which they find themselves.

in a universe in which events are uncertain and perception is fallible, knowing cannot be a matter of an individual mind 'mirroring' reality. Each mind reflects differently—even the same mind reflects differently at different moments—and in any case reality doesn't stand still long enough to be accurately mirrored … knowledge must therefore be social.

culture is a blob of mercury. Whenever you try to put a finger on it, it takes a different shape.

No belief, James thought, is justified by its correspondence with reality, because mirroring reality is not the purpose of having minds.

observed by neighbors, vicious and untrue. Not only was there

It's the body and eyes that tell what a person is thinking or going to do.

Our job is to be an awake people...utterly conscious, to attend to our world.

There aren't any other times or worlds. That's how everything gets messed up, thinking like that.

Een James Bond-boek is stom maar opwindend, terwijl een meesterwerk van de Vlaamse literatuur even stom maar daarbij ook nog vervelend is.

Waarom moet ieder mens geschokt en geslingerd worden tussen een wereld hier, een wereld van zavel en cement, bloed, zenuwen, telefoonpalen en zonde, mensen die geboren worden en mensen die sterven, en een andere wereld die in onze gedachten spookt zonder te weten of zoiets bestaat, bestaan heeft of ooit zal komen?

het is jammer, dat ons alleen maar feiten over de mens worden medegedeeld - wij hebben feiten teveel - het is iets anders wat we omtrent de mens verlangen te weten - onze gedachten, die vreemde, welke nog steeds de oorsprong zijn van ons onbegrijpelijke gedrag.

La materia es tal vez únicamente una máscara entre todas las máscaras del Gran Rostro.

Rattlesnakes would be a lot more dangerous if they didn't have the rattle.

I'm not stupid. I know everybody thinks I am. I just don't like answering their questions.

Okay, you were probably taught there are five senses," he said. "We see, hear, touch, smell and taste. But how do we know those are the only five? What are the senses that we don't have? What are we failing to perceive?

En medio del ruido, la suciedad, los humos y el riesgo de accidentes, me parecían personas muy sensibles, de una humanidad innata y con una maravillosa capacidad de organización y de percepción de la realidad inmediata. Siempre me hicieron sentir bienvenido y cómodo [...] mi estancia en las fábricas fue una de las experiencias más significativas de mi vida.

Louie in his early eighties. "I think my skateboarding shakes up a few people. Some stop their cars to be sure their eyes aren't deceiving them.