Quotes About Perception

Reality has a quality of freedom about it that is hard to explain.

Nothing you believe is true. To know this is freedom.

Freedom can never be comprehended, nor even can insight into it be gained.

It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.

Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.

Ideology today is unfreedom which you sincerely personally experience as freedom.

There is no definition of terrorism and there is still the reality that one person's terrorist is another person's freedom fighter.

In the context of our present pervasive madness that we call normality, sanity, freedom, all our frames of reference are ambiguous and equivocal.

The English people think they are free; they are greatly deceived; they are free only during the election of members of Parliament.

Once there is a distance between you and your thought process, a new freedom is born. With this freedom, a new perception arises.

I try to give the media as many confusing images as I can to retain my freedom. What's real is for my children and the people I live with.

As I've said, freedom is really an illusion. Anytime we think we have a real choice, it just means we haven't seen the shotgun aimed at our navel.

For you who no longer possess it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.

I had been right: freedom smelled like ozone and thunderstorms and gunpowder all at once, like snow and bonfires and cut grass, it tasted like seawater and oranges.

I think that freedom is sometimes a state of mind. Sometimes, mind you, but not always.

Humans are born free then put into cages, then convinced freedom is what being in a cage is, and what freedom is, is being in a cage.

The freedom of birds is an insult to me.

The only truth is that we cannot speak the truth . The only acceptable viewpoint is that we cannot express a viewpoint.

We become obsessed with 'truth' when discussing statements, just as we become obsessed with 'freedom' when discussing conduct...Like freedom, truth is a bare minimum or an illusory ideal.

Freedom!- is the fatuous jingle of our civilization, but only those deprived of it have the barest inkling re: what the stuff actually is.

Each in the cell of himself is almost convinced of his freedom.

I am prepared to accept from others their own version of reality. I think it is a basic freedom really, to create one's own reality from whatever truths are available.

But, said Alice, if the world has absolutely no sense, who's stopping us from inventing one?

A real friend is someone you say a sentence to and they know ten thousand words behind that sentence.