Quotes About Perception

The ugly can achieve an absoluteness beyond the reach of beauty.

Beauty is lyrical. Ugliness is elegiac.

The nonsense that charms is close to sense.

People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.

Consciousness is our only reprieve from Time.

In the game of love, the losers are more celebrated than the winners.

in the city, nudity means something; in the wild, it just exists

Para empezar, dice que una de las cosas cruciales para las personas afectadas por la depresión es evaluar de manera constante tanto a sí mismas como su condición mental. Algo que el estoicismo enseña a cualquier persona es a evaluar sus propias reacciones y a reflexionar críticamente sobre cómo percibe e interpreta el mundo.

But as Epictetus tells his students: "Remember that it is we who torment, we who make difficulties for ourselves—that is, our opinions do. What, for instance, does it mean to be insulted? Stand by a rock and insult it, and what have you accomplished? If someone responds to insult like a rock, what has the abuser gained with his invective?

questa tendenza a ricordare male il passato uno dei motivi principali per cui ci sembra che oggi le cose vadano peggio.

I don't think that type should be expressive at all. I can write the word 'dog' with any typeface and it doesn't have to look like a dog. But there are people that [think that] when they write 'dog' it should bark.

The repercussion of ugliness is endless.

A word is like a finger pointing at different things. Do not look at the finger; focus on the essence of the word. Focus on what the finger is pointing at!

Could this be my own face, I wondered. My heart pounded at the idea, and the face in the mirror grew more and more unfamiliar.

Never does one so constantly see so many different things as when peering from a small window.

I have found that, in the African American oral tradition, if the words are enunciated eloquently enough, no one examines the meaning for definitive truth.

People look at interracial couples through their own, distorting racial lens. It doesn't matter what form they take.

Okay, here's the secret. It's not really a secret, but I'll frame it to you as one. The same people who despise you for identifying as mixed? Those are the same people who, when you do identify as black, despise you for not being black enough. And there's nothing you can actually do to be black enough, for them. Because it's not really how you act that they despise. It's you. Your very existence." She

I'm watching you, big boy, my eyes say, but his are closed so it's an optical monologue.

Il y a bien des souvenirs, mais quelqu'un les a électrifiés et connectés à nos cils, dès qu'on y pense on a les yeux qui brûlent.

Tus ojos son demasiado grandes; cuando ríes, a través de ellos se ve tu corazón.

Cierro los ojos para verte mejor.

Quand j'étais petit, je croyais que les magasins de pompes funèbres vendaient des chaussures pour les morts. Des modèles vernis, neufs pour toujours, qui auraient le droit de faire mal aux pieds.

círculo infinito cuyo centro está en todas partes y su circunferencia es tan grande que parece una línea recta»?