Quotes About Perception

Prozac fundamentally and selectively alters personality without altering perception. This gives rise to disturbing questions: By using Prozac, are we fiddling with the human soul? Does the drug's effectiveness mean that we don't have a soul-that the mind is merely a glob of tissue in which electrical and chemical events occur?

Most joyful the Poet be;It is through him that all men see.

I continue to believe that the American people have a love-hate relationship with inflation. They hate inflation but love everything that causes it.

Some people are blinded by their experience. Soldiers know how important war is. Owners of slaves learn every day how inferior subject peoples are.

So, the world happens twice-- once what we see it as; second it legends itself deep, the way it is.

Those times you caught them out and showed them up -- they learned how stupid they are. But now you'll never hear the little song of their purring throats, and you'll never know what they think, when you say hello.

The greatest ownership of all is to glance around and understand.

If you don't know the kind of person I am and I don't know the kind of person you are a pattern that others made may prevail in the world and following the wrong god home we may miss our star.

A man might pass for insane who should see things as they are.

The world is governed by opinion.

Every man is a volume, if you know how to read him.

Imagine then, by miracle, with me,(Ambiguous gifts, as what gods give must be)What could not possibly be there,And learn a style from a despair.

An ambiguity, in ordinary speech, means something very pronounced, and as a rule witty or deceitful. I propose to use the word in an extended sense, and shall think relevant to my subject any verbal nuance, however slight, which gives room for alternative reactions to the same piece of language.

the machinations of ambiguity are among the very roots of poetry.

The superstition that the hounds of truth will rout the vermin of error seems, like a fragment of Victorian lace, quaint, but too brittle to be lifted out of the showcase.

I've always subconsciously looked out for the total Christian and when I found him he turned out to be a non-practicing Jew.

I've seed de first en de last…. I seed de beginnin, en now I sees de endin.

The next time you try to seduce anyone, don't do it with talk, with words. Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.

Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.

Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.

The next time you try to seduce anyone, don't do it with talk, with words. Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.

Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.

Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.

Once a bitch always a bitch, what I say.