Quotes About Perception

come le figure dipinte non parlano quando le interroghi, così le parole scritte non sanno rispondere che sempre nello stesso modo, quello scelto dall'autore quando ha scritto il libro».

A voi giovani l'unica cosa che importa sapere è se ho raccontato un aneddoto vero o falso e sottovalutate il fatto che contenga la verità che cerchiamo».

BREAKLIGHT Light keeps on breaking. i keep knowing the language of other nations. i keep hearing tree talk water words and i keep knowing what they mean. and light just keeps on breaking… Collected in: Sisters of the Earth: Women's Prose and Poetry About Nature by Lorraine Anderson

thunder and lightning and our world is another place no day will ever be the same no blood untouched

Smoke was hanging over Buffalo like judgment.

Just because I'm talking about something that might have been a sad or painful situation doesn't mean that I'm sad or tortured 24 hours a day any more than anybody else is.

Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.

What fools these mortals be.

You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

We are more often frightened than hurt and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both this is an observation of the Middle Way.

Even the serenity he felt was something that needed to be understood; it seemed a symptom of a deeper and more complete understanding that lay yet beyond him.

For as children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.

What is food to one man is bitter poison to others.

There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.

The first beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.

He shut his eyes. "What an idiot I was up there. Stupid, naïve . . . and slow, slow, slow to understand." "Honest, perhaps?" Dobrowski said. Halperin was angry, but not with Dobrowski. "Isn't honesty in a situation like that plain stupidity? I could have lied. I could have continued to lie.

the fact that it's unbelievable but every single thing alive has its own center of being, and looks out on the world from that point of view, even a worm, or a jellyfish, hamsters, owls, the fact that even a leaf has feelings, the fact that you know the leaves are enjoying this warm sun going right through them,

the fact that now it's Philip Glass on the radio, the fact that I wonder how many people in Ohio care about Philip Glass,

the fact that Stacy seems to feel some kind of rapport with that woebegone creature, the fact that whether this is because she feels fierce and free, or caged and cowed, doesn't bear thinking about.

Ming Dynasty porcelain, Mao jackets, cheap toys and electrical goods, everything, though not pot-stickers, or crispy duck and pancakes and sweet and sour pork and fortune cookies, the fact that she never ate her fortune cookie though, just opened it to see her fortune.

the fact that every few years they decide noodles are fatal, but I don't buy that, the fact that noodles seem pretty innocent to me, overall, and handy with kids

To children, especially religious little ones, Heaven is always very near, and that one of its denizens should come to them does not seem so improbable as it does to mature minds.

When dealing with my mother, one always had to act in a delicate and prescribed way, though the exact rules of protocol seemed to shift frequently and without advance notice. One day, out of milk was a problem easily dealt with, but on the next it was a symbol of her children's selfishness, our father's failure, and her tragic, wasted life.