Quotes About Perception

Maybe you and I and the fish exist only in the memory of a person who is gone. Maybe no one really exists, and it's only raining outside. Maybe the bird never existed at all. -Boy (Angel's Egg)

That's all it is. Information. Even a simulated experience or a dream is simultaneous reality and fantasy. Any way you look at it, all the information that a person accumulates in a lifetime is just a drop in the bucket.

I believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration.

The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.

Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.

Remember that this world is an illusion as much as the others. We who have sight see what we choose to see and so make it real.

Smell is an invitation to a journey: it allows us to leave the ordinary course of things and go on a trip, to absent ourselves.

the problem of the unthinkability of anything outside and beyond the legacies of sexual polarization that limit perception, and above all the invisibility of this problem.

Alles Sehen und Erkennen der Dinge und Gesetze ohne Gott wird zur Abstraktion, zur Loslösung vom Ursprung und vom Ziel.

Klug ist, wer die Wirklichkeit sieht, wie sie ist, wer auf den Grund der Dinge sieht. Klug ist allein, wer die Wirklichkeit in Gott sieht.

Der Christ lebt aus den Zeiten Gottes und nicht aus seinem eigenen Begriff vom Leben.

Wer nicht lange und geduldig zuhören kann, der wird am Andern immer vorbeireden und es selbst schließlich gar nicht mehr merken.

Both our triumphs and our tragedies are defined as much by how we perceive as by what we do.

was it they who were flawed, or was it he?

existence a temporary delusion—hadn

Potom zamru svi zvuci, svjetla se zamra?e, a njegove o?i sklope, i njemu se u?ini kao da po?inje neki film...

Nina could defend arranged marriages in her sleep, she had been asked about them so often. To her horror, she had even begun to sound like her mother.

I hate the word 'simple'. Nobody has any business to live in the world and know nothing about its ways.

We call our worst enemies dogs, but they don't deserve it because dogs are the friends of man.

Experiences are the chemicals of life with which the philosopher experiments

In a single figure a symbol may both reveal and conceal, for to the wise the subject of the symbol is obvious, while to the ignorant the figure remains inscrutable.

seems incredible to them that metals and characters

While superstition hates all things, wisdom, with its deeper understanding, loves all things; for it has seen the beauty, the tenderness, and the sweetness which underlie Life's mystery.

Man is thus surrounded by a supersensible universe of which he knows nothing because the centers of sense perception within himself have not been developed sufficiently to respond to the subtler rates of vibration of which that universe is composed.