Quotes About Perception

Sin embargo, no le parecía que los escritores ni quienes compraban esos libros conocieran a los animales. Ella tampoco los conocía en absoluto. Eran criaturas. No eran humanos. Suponía que sus funciones se definían por el tamaño, la forma y la complejidad de su cerebro. Suponía también que poseían tenues, vacilantes e inarticuladas vidas psíquicas

Love is blind, there was no doubt about it. In Tara's case it was also deaf, dumb, dyslexic, had a bad hip and the beginnings of Alzheimer's

Nem vágytam én arra, hogy tájékoztass a valóságról.

A shroud lies ahead and behind many truths. Reality is (sometimes) a glass wall no ray of light reaches.

As truth reality contains a large amount of imagination; in some cases, of lack of imagination.

Beauty remains virtue if the others see and admire it and this is enough for you.

The big truth, maybe the only truth, is that we don't know anything for sure.

The soul sees the body and says: I think I know him from somewhere… The body sees the souls and says: Forgive me!

They haven't written the books to teach us all we want to know about our existence and us. And a large number of what is written is largely based on the conventional and the imaginary.

Too strong of a light can be deadly to the one used to read by candlelight.

People are sometimes really different from what you first think. You have to give them a chance.

Schneiderman (alias David Britton alias David Henry)

The power of the visibleis the invisible.

Imaginary gardens with real toads in them.

Psychology which explains everything, explains nothing.

repression, however, is not the most obvious characteristic of the sea; the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look.

I, too, dislike it. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it, after all, a place for the genuine.

I have no sympathy for people who find unpopularity embittering.

one must not borrow a long white beard and tie it on and threaten with the scythe of time the casually curious

America where there is the little old ramshackle victoria in the south, where cigars are smoked on the street in the north; where there are no proof-readers, no silkworms, no digressions; the wild man's land; grassless, linksless, languageless country in which letters are written not in Spanish, not in Greek, not in Latin, not in shorthand, but in plain American which cats and dogs can read!

To have misapprehended the matter is to have confessed that one has not looked far enough.

because light travels to us over distance, everything we see is an illusion. And that the whole purpose of existence is to cut the distance between the source of the illusion and our perception of it. And if we can do that, then we can see that every particle of matter is the same.

Youth never sees its shadow till the sun's about to set: and then you wonder where the person went who you were speaking to in all your thoughts for all those years.

Most people have a perceptual tripwire which registers the trespass of another's focused interest.