Quotes About Perception

Time is an illusion. Time only exists when we think about the past and the future. Time doesn't exist in the present here and now.

But opinions, judgments, memories, dreaming about the future—ninety percent of the thoughts spinning around in our heads have no essential reality.

Since the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing.

One might as well attempt to calculate mathematically the contingent forms of the tinkling bits of glass in a kaleidoscope as to look through the tube of the future and foretell its pattern.

The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.

See things in the present, even if they are in the future.

The future doesn't exist. It hasn't happened yet. The past doesn't exist. It has already happened.

...not all encounters with the world affect the mind equally. Studies have demonstrated that if the brain appraises an event as "meaningful," it will be more likely to be recalled in the future.

Time past and time future allow but a little consciousness. To be conscious is not to be in time.

Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable.

The future does not exist, because nobody has ever experienced it. You can only ever experience a present moment.

There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water.

The future is not really the future. It's just a present that looks good.

You can tell a person's past, present and future by listening to the words they use.

If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.

At some point around '94 or '95, 'Rolling Stone' said that guitar rock was dead and that the Chemical Brothers were the future. I think that was the last issue of 'Rolling Stone' I ever bought.

I live in the present. I only remember the past, and anticipate the future.

Past is deaf. Future is mute. Present is blind.

Past and future exist only in our memory. The present moment, though, is outside of time, it's Eternity.

As people used to be wrong about the motion of the sun, so they are still wrong about the motion of the future. The future stands still, it is we who move in infinite space.

Whenever you think that your needs are not being met, you're telling the story of a future

Future art that is based on appearances won't look like the art that's gone before. Even revivals of a period are not the same.