Quotes About Perception

Every man treats himself as society treats the criminal.

Every dog has its day but it's not every dog that knows when he's having it.

Why do some people always see beautiful skies and grass and lovely flowers and incredible human beings while others are hard-pressed to find anything or any place that is beautiful?

I am convinced the longer I live that life and its blessings are not so entirely unjustly distributed as when we are suffering greatly we are inclined to suppose.

In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king.

No one is satisfied with his fortune or dissatisfied with his intellect.

Up is down, pleasure is pain, darkness is light, slavery is freedom, madness is sanity.

A definite factor in getting a lie believed is the size of the lie. The broad mass of the people, in the simplicity of their hearts, more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one.

People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling that bothers me.

Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.

This possibility to change reality, which exists in everyone, represents the real freedom of every human individual. He has an enormous possibility to change his world view.

The best slave is the one who thinks he is free.

Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness.

To a coward, courage always looks like stupidity.

Nobody with open eyes can any longer doubt that the danger to personal freedom comes chiefly from the left.

Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.

Are you still thinking, looking, living, as from an imaginary phenomenal centre? As long as you do that you can never recognise your freedom.

One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter

Government leaders are amazing. So often it seems they are the last to know what the people want.

We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

I'm an American who loves an America which doesn't exist, which is a land of freedom and free ideas.

The words democracy, socialism, freedom, patriotic, realistic, justice have each of them several different meanings which cannot be reconciled with one another.

Animals see the unobstructed world with their whole eyes. But our eyes, turned back upon themselves, encircle and seek to snare the world, setting traps for freedom.