Quotes About Perception

When the phone rang she did not look at it the way they do in the movies. Real people don't look at ringing phones.

That's my argument exactly. Fangs. Snakebite. Fifty thousand people a year die of snakebite. It was on television last night." "Everything was on television last night," Orest said. I admired the reply.

Abbiamo bisogno di sapere cose che gli altri non sanno. È quello che nessuno sa di te che ti permette di conoscerti.

Quanti inizi ci vogliono prima che si comincino a vedere le menzogne del proprio entusiasmo?

But the phenomenon of reputation is a delicate thing. A person rises on a word and falls on a syllable.

It is interesting to think of the great blaze of heaven that we winnow down to animal shapes and kitchen tools.

I am aware that when we see something, we are getting only a measure of information, a sense, an inkling of what is really there to see. I don't know the details or the terminology but I do know that the optic nerve is not telling the full truth. We're seeing only intimations. The rest is our invention, our way of constructing what is actual, if there is any such thing, philosophically, that we can call actual.

If the eye is a mystery, totally forget the ear. Just say 'cochlea' to somebody, they look at you like, 'Who's this guy?' There's this while world right inside our own body.

All this I am projecting, of course. I'll never know for sure. We can't fully understand what plagues each other's hearts, much less our own at times. Ultimately even our best friends are unknowable to us.

Not every woman in old slippers can manage to look like Cinderella

humans are born in truth, but we grow up believing in lies. one of the biggest lies in the story of humanity is the lie of our imperfection.

Our emotions act like a filter through which we see the rest of the world.

What you are seeing and hearing right now is nothing but a dream. You are dreaming right now in this moment. You are dreaming with the brain awake.

He looked at the stars again, and he realized that it's not the stars that create light, but rather light that creates the stars.

Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream.

Svemir je jednostavan, onakav kakav jest ili onakav kakav nije, ali ljudska bi?a sve kompliciraju.

Ono što vjerujete o sebi projicirate na druge ljude i to je ono što drugi vjeruju o vama. Dakako, i oni se prema vama ponašaju u skladu s tim, što samo daje snagu vašem uvjerenju da niste vrijedni. A što je istina? Istina je da jeste vrijedni: svatko je vrijedan.

The only way to store information is by agreement. The outside dream may hook our attention, but if we don't agree, we don't store that information. As soon as we agree, we believe it, and this is called faith. To have faith is to believe unconditionally.

The Truth is that you have no idea what you really are but you know what you are not

However, the majority of people mistakenly judge external things to be 'good' and therefore experience feelings of desire for things beyond their control, leading to frustration and suffering.

The meanings of today may not be the meanings of the future.

The standards should reflect the psychological conceptual models, not the physical mechanics.

Suppose I try to use an everyday thing, but I can't. Who is at fault: me or the thing? We are apt to blame ourselves, especially if others are able to use it. Suppose the fault really lies in the device, so that lots of people have the same problems. Because everyone perceives the fault to be his or her own, nobody wants to admit to having trouble. This creates a conspiracy of silence, where the feelings of guilt and helplessness among people are kept hidden.

Knowledge in the world includes perceived affordances and signifiers, the mappings between the parts that appear to be controls or places to manipulate and the resulting actions, and the physical constraints that limit what can be done. Knowledge