Quotes About Perception

It is possible of course that there are no more real men here, on his ball of half-truths, the earth.

There are three basic problems: how a mind can know the world of nature, how it is possible for one mind to know another, and how it is possible to know the contents of our own minds without resort to observation or evidence. It is a mistake, I shall urge, to suppose that these questions can be collapsed into two, or taken into isolation.

The language in which we express our ideas has a strong influence on our thought processes.

America is one of the few places in the world where a "poor" person can still be obese.6

Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.

Everything woke, turns to shit.

The Shark and the Flipper need to have the ability to recognize the signs, interpret them correctly, and then act without hesitation.

Just as men often marry brunettes after years of dating only blondes, and end up strolling on Madison Avenue with the small white puppy they swore they would never have, buyers are liars.

An algorithm must be seen to be believed.

Beautiful writing may sparkle like a diamond necklace, but sparkling isn't a feeling.

To see how differently folks experience a work of fiction, check their comments on Goodreads. Are those people all reading the same novel?

As human beings we perceive rubber handles, popping corks, crème centers, lavender lotion, and autumn leaves as real. But just as solid to us are snotty attitudes, inconvenient lust, spade flushes, political lies, steely beauty, hometown support, big-city zeal, coffee intoxication, bizarre fashion moments, cell-phone lobotomies, road rage, pathetic dreams, and a thousand other things that aren't corporeal. To

Sometimes the story we're telling the world isn't half as endearing as the one that lives inside us.

I think life is staggering and we're just too used to it.

Somehow I had come to believe that because a person is in need, they are candidates for sympathy, not just charity. It was not that I wanted to buy her groceries, the government was already doing that. I wanted to buy her dignity. And yet, by judging her, I was the one taking her dignity away.

she wanted God to make sense. He doesn't. He will make no more sense to me than I will make sense to an ant.

I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a man playing the saxophone. I stood there for fifteen minutes, and he never opened his eyes.

Some people skip through life. Others are dragged through it. I sometimes wonder if we are moving through time, or whether time is moving through us. Light, unlike anything else in the universe is not effected by time. Light exists outside of time.. It is still a mystery to physicists.

Today I wonder why it is God refers to Himself as 'Father' at all. This, to me, in light of the earthly representation of the role, seems a marketing mistake.

Naked people look funny when they are for-real naked, outside-a-magazine naked.

Oprah Winfrey, an undeniably successful guide to millions, once explained the three things every human being wants most are to be seen, heard, and understood. This is the essence of empathy.

Reality is like fine wine: it does not appeal to children.

Maybe, these ideas are pointing to something mystical and true. And perhaps i am judging hte idea, not by its merit, but by the fashionable or unfashionable delivery of the message.

Sometimes our identities get distorted because people lie about us and scare us, and sometimes our identities get distorted because of things we've actually done. The result is the same, though. Isolation.