Quotes About Perception

That which I think only according to the standard of my individuality is not binding on another; it can be conceived otherwise; it is an accidental, merely subjective view.

I'm sure I've dated my share of loonies in the past. Sometimes I realized it early on and sometimes not that fast. Love can be blinding, even for therapists. Plus, crazy can be fun sometimes. Don't you think?! Maybe that's just me!

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

I'm sorry I can't hear you

Value is not intrinsic; it is not in things. It is within us; it is the way in which man reacts to the conditions of his environment.

For hundreds, even thousands, of years, people completely failed to see that variations in the objective exchange-value of money could be induced by monetary factors. They tried to explain all variations of prices exclusively from the commodity side.

What counts is not the data, but the mind that deals with them. The data that Galileo, Newton, Ricardo, Menger, and Freud made use of for their great discoveries lay at the disposal of every one of their contemporaries and of untold previous generations. Galileo was certainly not the first to observe the swinging motion of the chandelier in the cathedral at Pisa.

It is easy indeed to display foresight after the event. In retrospect all fools become wise.

O valor não é intrínseco. Não está nas coisas e nas condições, mas no sujeito que as avalia.

Prices change slowly because the subjective valuations of human beings change slowly.

the subjective theory of value

Soñar despierto con un mundo "justo" que lo trataría de acuerdo con su "valor real" es el refugio de todos aquellos plagados de falta de autoconocimiento.

The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity

If one understands eternity as timelessness, and not as an unending timespan, then whoever lives in the present lives for all time.

When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.

Philosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert on us.

Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.

Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.

What is your aim in philosophy?---To shew the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.

The limits of my language means the limits of my world.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Only describe, don't explain.

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Our life has no end in the way in which our visual field has no limits.