Quotes About Perception

What we are confronted with now is a growing perception that if we desire a certain type of civilization and culture we must exterminate the sort of people who do not fit into it.

I understand - and often make fun of - the desire to run to the wall text before running to the painting.

Our vanity desires that what we do best should be considered what is hardest for us.

Only meaning can make a difference and we all know there's no meaning. All stories express a desire for meaning, not meaning itself. Therefore any difference knowing the story makes is a delusion.

Thinking is the desire to gain reality by means of ideas.

To mind being disliked by a woman you don't desire and are not married to is yet another serious failure of common sense.

We desire to understand the world by giving names to the things we see, but these things are only the effects of something subtle.

Dad's Theory of Arrogance--that everyone always assumes they're the Principal Character of Desire and/or Loathing in everybody else's Broadway Play.

I guess I've never really had a great desire to be a leading lady, or be seen as an ingenue.

Yes, our eyes may perceive, yet they do not observe; they may believe, yet they do not question; they may receive yet they do not search: they are emptied of desire, with neither hunger nor passion.

Use your unconscious mind to read other people's intents, emotions, and desires.

When the human being says:'It is not true...'He may mean:'I don't know about it, so I think it is untrue.'Or:'I don't like it.

If my hand on yours trembles it's because bodies never lie.

The destiny of every human being is decided by what goes on inside his skull when confronted by what goes on outside his skull.

If you think you're meeting your destiny on the other side of a door you may not be interested in its design.

Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny.

Your choices are really very limited. They are limited by your level of awareness. If you can change your level of awareness radically, then you can change your destiny.

Whoever has not felt the danger of our times palpitating under his hand, has not really penetrated to the vitals of destiny, he has merely pricked the surface.

William Shakespeare

Your mind is such a crucial asset to a victorious life. The mind is the eye of a man. What it sees and accepts shapes a man's life and determines his destiny.

Even the models we see in magazines wish they could look like their own images.

Pizza tastes better than broccoli and opinion tastes better than news.

A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.

There is no dignity in a crying toothpick.