Quotes About Perception

ô literatura! Por que as coisas nos parecem sempre belas quando protegidas pela distância?

Não é uma forma de esconder seu sentimento de superioridade? Ter pena dos outros não é se sentir superior a esses outros?

Ana Clara contou que tinha um namorado que endoidava quando ela tirava os cílios postiços, a cena do biquíni não tinha a menor importância mas assim que começava a tirar os cílios, era a glória. Os olhos nus. Em verdade vos digo que chegará o dia em que a nudez dos olhos será mais excitante do que a do sexo.

Sempre fomos o que os homens disseram que nós éramos. Agora somos nós que vamos dizer o que somos.

Mas o que seria loucura, recusar a realidade ou pactuar com ela?

Ao passar pela porta do quarto azul, susteve a respiração. "A mãe dormiu." Era tão bom quando ela dormia! Os loucos deviam dormir o tempo todo, de dia e de noite, como as bonecas que só abrem os olhos quando tiradas da caixa.

Importante papel está reservado aos psiquiatras. Aos profetas, acredito ainda mais nos profetas. Acho que eu seria mais útil se estudasse Medicina, de que vão adiantar no futuro as leis se agora já são o que se sabe. Uma psiquiatra maravilhosa. O chato é que quando leio um livro sobre doenças mentais, descubro em mim os sintomas de quase todas, uma psiquiatra por dentro demais da loucura.

People can portray me anyway they want because I don't give a damn. I am what I am. And until those people touch me close enough, they'll never know who I am. If they don't want to see me in this interview or a newspaper article, and say "what's the matter with this guy?" Let'em say it. But don't you analyze me and don't you tell me what I am until you get close enough to understand what I am. Then you can make an analysis of me, but don't you dare do it until then.

I'm really in no danger of being perceived as a famous movie actor!

To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind.

Night hath a thousand eyes.

There must be some honest lawyers at the New York bar, and some impartial judges on the New York bench, but I should not like to be set to find them.

He who would see God must use the faculty with which God is seen; and if he would do this, he must let men who are rich in the faculty which perceives the invisible, — which looks not at the things which are seen and are temporal, but at the things which are not seen and are eternal, — guide, teach, inspire him.

We lawyers learn to study the faces of our witnesses, to form quick judgments, and to act upon them.

Did you ever consider the difference between a real flower and a wax imitation? The latter may be quite as beautiful. It may deceive you at first. And yet when you discover the deception you are disappointed. "The lack of fragrance," Jennie suggests. No! the flower may be odorless. It is the lack of life. I do not know what there is in that mystic life that should make such a difference. But I am sure that the charm of the flower is in its life.

If you and I have not seen God, we cannot bear witness to God.

He who looks for the worst in men will not be without belief in a personal devil; he who looks for the best in men will not be without faith in a personal God.

But neither painting, literature, music, nor architecture is so impressive as life.

An eastern contemporary, with a grain of wisdom in its wit, says that "when the whites win a fight, it is a victory, and when the Indians win it, it is a massacre."

His father thought he had a wond'rous wise look when he was born, and so he named him Solomon, thinking that if indeed he turned out to be wise the name would fit him nicely, whereas, should he be mistaken, and the boy grow up stupid, his name could be easily changed to Simon.

The bus had a name too. Elaborately painted letters across the back declared it to be "Old but Sexy." It occurred to me that as I slipped inexorably into middle age, such a title might be the best I myself could hope for.

Intuition is the soul within the soul.

Vanity is easily forgiven, for we are all vain, and even as we laugh at the weakness of others we feel that their vanity has touched the responding chord of our own.

Most human beings are quite likeable if you do not see too much of them.