Quotes About Perception

For me, sleep equaled death. How was closing your eyes and losing consciousness any different from death? What separated temporary loss of consciousness from permanent obliteration?

People observe the colors of a day at its beginnings and ends, but to me it's quiet clear that a day merges through a multitude of shades and intonations, with each passing moment.

Another remarkable thing about the dead is that they are all ages, preserved at every age you ever knew them, and at no age at all.

Those that see too much quickly find themselves seeing nothing at all.

I can just barely tell when you're afraid because that is the only emotion I have been able to recognize.

To show his nervousness was not shameful

Life is like a dream, when you wake up, you only have memories.

Ultimately, what I am seeking in the photograph taken of me... is Death: Death is the eidos of that Photograph

The world, as it is, is not a permanent reality, but is a temporary product of our choices as creators.

This stupidity of sounding a siren and speeding through traffic with a coffin must be an African speciality.

Everyone dies. The don't all have the chance to see what they wanted most. At least I've seen the Above. At least I've known True.

Can't call 'em zombies anymore, " sighed Manny. He seemed almost wistful. "Now we gotta be all politically correct. It's like the Cold Wars never happened.

Death is just a distant rumour to the young.

If this is dying I don't think much of it.

Around around the sun we go: The moon goes round the earth. We do not die of death: We die of vertigo.

Design is more than just a few tricks to the eye. It's a few tricks to the brain.

We have to replace beauty, which is a cultural concept, with goodness, which is a humanist concept.

Typographical design should perform optically what the speaker creates through voice and gesture of his thoughts.

Design is thinking made visual.

You are what you are seen to be.

As the saying goes, type is a beautiful group of letters, not a group of beautiful letters.

The good is not a category that interests me.

Never mistake legibility for communication.

Legibility, in practice, amounts simply to what one is accustomed to.