Quotes About Perception

If prevision be a fact, it is a fact which destroys absolutely the entire basis of all our past opinions of the universe.

I was suffering, seemingly, from some extraordinary fault in my relation to reality, something so uniquely wrong that it compelled me to perceive, at rare intervals, large blocks of otherwise perfectly normal personal experience displaced from their proper positions in Time.

I cared not a whit whether Time were "a form of thought," or an aspect of reality, or (this was later) compoundable with Space. What I wanted to know was: How it got mixed?

As pessoas estão tão acostumadas a ouvir mentiras, que sinceridade demais choca e faz com que você pareça arrogante.

It is an emotional issue which ultimately revolves around the question of whether other animals affectively experience the world and themselves in a way similar to humans—as subjectively feeling, sentient creatures. The topic of subjectivity is one that modern neuroscience has avoided. It is generally agreed that there are no direct, objective ways to measure the subjectivity of other animals, nor indeed of other humans.

Keel on kompromiss, et kirjeldada piiratud arvu märkidega lõputult muutlikku maailma.

Men are obtuse. You have to beat them over the head with a frying pan to get them to notice things.

She made a good point. So did her nipples.

Liz: "Talking is overrated." Gavin: "Now you sound like a guy." Liz: "That's why you like me." Gavin: "Because you're a guy?

I try to avoid saying anything positive about any presidential candidate for fear that if I actually like them then I will kill their campaign.

I was going to stop being so cynical but probably nobody would even notice.

Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow.

She could say 'no' quicker than any woman I ever knew, and none of them ever meant 'yes'.

How can you be so cold-blooded about everything?" She could have sworn that one corner of the Mage's mouth twitched upward for just an instant as he gestured toward the sun beating down upon them. "I am actually quite warm at the moment.

Solo en las vastas extensiones del espacio la luz parece lenta

Wisdom does not lie in accepting what the illusion shows us. It lies in trying to change the illusion in favor of what is real. You have already cast your shadow wide and done what many said could not be.

If the people we think we see are but shadows of the world illusion, what matter what we tell them? It becomes not a matter of truth and lies, but a question of whether either matters. The choice of what to do is mine.

It's funny how much you don't realize about the people you've spent your whole life with, isn't it?

love makes people delusional, Jason! You aren't seeing me anymore. Your delusions are causing you to see some illusion of me that is far, far better than I could ever actually be.

Como dice el viejo refrán, a veces el peligro no reside en lo que ignoras, sino en lo que crees saber.

you want me to tell you that the people who know you don't think you could do the sort of stuff your mother did. But the truth is, they think you're a whole lot more than you think you are.

Slow down and take the time to really see. Take a moment to see what is going on around you right now, right where you are. You may be missing something wonderful. Jeffrey Michael Thomas

If your dog doesn't like someone, you probably shouldn't either.