Quotes About Perception

Steffie said, "Can you see the feathery plume from the attic window?" "It's not a plume." "But will we have to leave our homes?

This is why we are here. A tiny minority. To embody old things, old beliefs. The devil, the angels, heaven, hell. If we did not pretend to believe these things, the world would collapse." "Pretend?" "Of course pretend. Do you think we are stupid? Get out from here." "You don't believe in heaven? A nun?" "If you don't, why should I?" "If you did, maybe I would." "If I did, you would not have to.

We're not here to capture an image. We're here to maintain one. Every photograph reinforces the aura.

It was like a class project in the structure of reality.

The Chief of Student Welcoming writes that the school was created exclusively for youths of the underprivileged countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America. Lee wonders how they can think he is privileged. It is part of the general stupidity about life in the U.S.

Me doy cuenta ahora de que el primer día apenas llegué a mirar. Creía estar mirando, pero solo estaba percibiendo un mero barrunto de lo que hay en estos cuadros. Ahora es cuando estoy empezando a mirar.

Even after you think you've seen all the ways violence can surprise a man, along comes something you never imagined.

Some people are scared by the sunsets, some determined to be elated, but most of us don't know how to feel, are ready to go either way.

They're not calling it the feathery plume anymore," he said, not meeting my eyes, as if to spare himself the pain of my embarrassment. "I already knew that." "They're calling it the black billowing cloud." "Good." "Why is that good?" "It means they're looking the thing more or less squarely in the eye. They're on top of the situation.

This is all happening in the future. This future, this instant. If you can't absorb this idea, best go home now." I

People seemed to depend on his cheerfulness. The less important you are in an office, the more they expect the happy smile.

The family is strongest where objective reality is most likely to be misinterpreted. What

The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation. There must be something in family life that generates factual error.

How much myth do we build into our experience of time?

How deep is time? How far down into the life of matter do we have to go before we understand what time is?

They are taking pictures of taking pictures," he said.

Whoever controls your eyeballs runs the world.

In a crisis the true facts are whatever other people say they are. No one's knowledge is less secure than your own.

How old were you when you first realized your father was a jerk?" "Twelve and a half," Grappa said.

Nada existía a su alrededor. Solo el sonido dentro de su cabeza, la mente suspensa en el tiempo. Cuando muriese, no seria su fin. Seria el fin del mundo.

look in the mirror and I don't know who I'm looking at," he said. "The face looking back at me doesn't seem to be mine. But then again why should it? Is the mirror a truly reflective surface? And is this the face that other people see? Or is it something or someone that I invent? Does the medication I'm taking release this second self?

Are you people telling me," Babette said, "that a rat is not only a vermin and a rodent but a mammal too?

She ran water from the tap and seemed to notice it. It was the first time she'd ever noticed this.

She looked past the bowl into a space inside her head that was also here in front of her.