Quotes About Perception

Sometimes I feel that life is passing me by, not slowly either, but with ropes of steam and spark-spattered wheels and a hoarse roar of power or terror. It's passing, yet I'm the one who's doing all the moving.

My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived.

Love is blind; but it makes you see the blind man; teetering on the roadside . . .

Whoever it was that first realized that a woman wronged is a dangerous animal, and I suspect he was a Neolithic half-ape, was immeasurably correct.

that the human race would become extinct if every member of it could see themselves having sex?

Rich girls are a pain in the arse in the sack:

An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.

So long as you "have" yourself, have yourself as an object, your experience of man is only as of a thing among things.

Mundus vult decipi. The world winks at dishonesty. The world does not call it dishonesty.

there is a hierarchy of deceptions. Near the bottom of the ladder is journalism: a steady stream of irresponsible distortions that most people find refreshing although on the morning after, or at least within a week, it will be stale and flat.

Of Enoch, who walked with Elohim, it is told that he had become one of the angels who was all eyes and wings. Thus is the poet. Everything in him perceives the things, and everything in him flies past the things. He is wholly in the one thing that he experiences, and yet is already and still in all the others at the same time.

We say 'far away'; the Zulu has for that a word which means, in our sentence form, 'There where someone cries out: "Oh mother, I am lost." ' The Fuegian soars above our analytic wisdom with a seven-syllabled word whose precise meaning is, 'They stare at one another, each waiting for the other to volunteer to do what both wish, but are not able to do.

Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived. The truth is too complex and frightening; the taste for the truth is an acquired taste that few acquire.

An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.

The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God.

We can be redeemed only to the extent to which we see ourselves.

Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived.

To look away from the world, or to stare at it, does not help a man to reach God; but he who sees the world in Him stands in His presence.

The most beautiful women in the world were African.

He never had been good at arguing with women; they tapped into pools of resentment over slights that had steeped for years.

Between the intention and the act, life was often a tale told to the deaf. •

I looked you up, Arkady. You have a checkered career." "I'm flattered. I was unaware of having any career at all.

If I don't practice for two weeks, my audience notices. If I don't practice for a day I notice.

Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.