Quotes About Perception

Magic was useless by itself. Making impossibilities possibilities was harder than it looked.

El pasado y el futuro son mitos. El pasado no es más que un presente muerto y el futuro, en cualquier caso, nunca existirá, porque para cuando uno llega al futuro ya se ha convertido en presente.

As Thoreau wrote, 'It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.' And Ash only saw the Nora he had fallen in love with and married, and so, in a way, that was the Nora she was becoming.

but people only see the truth if it is close enough to their reality. As Thoreau wrote, 'It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

I stand like a vertical headache

Depresiv". Toat? lumea ar purta o etichet? dac? ar întreba specialistul potrivit.

Interessant dat het leven soms een heel nieuw perspectief kreeg als je maar lang genoeg wachtte omdat te zien, peinsde ze.

Somehow I'd hoped that this would be the summer that I would discover that I was alive. The world my mom and dad said was out there waiting for me. That world doesn't actually exist.

that the prison wasn´t the place, but the perspective.

Ari believed we are all a simulation. Matter is an illusion. Everything is silicon. He could be right. But your emotions? They're solid.

This human was female. She was called Priti, which was pronounced "pretty" and means pretty. Unfortunate, given that she was human and, by her very nature, vomit-provoking.

Many of us have every material thing we need, so the job of marketing is now to tie economy to our emotions, to make us feel like we need more by making us want things we never needed before. We are made to feel poor on thirty thousand pounds a year. To feel poorly travelled if we have been to only ten other countries. To feel too old if we have a wrinkle. To feel ugly if we aren't photoshopped and filtered.

We are too aware of numerical time and not aware enough of natural time.

She wondered how many Dans there were in the world, dreaming of things they would hate if they actually got them. And how many were pushing people into their delusional idea of happiness?

I have only been alive for four hundred and thirty-nine years, which is of course nowhere near long enough to understand the minimal facial expressions of the average teenage boy.

So, you see? Sometimes regrets aren't based on fact at all. Sometimes regrets are just . . .' She searched for the appropriate term and found it. 'A load of bullshit.

You possess a young face and a wise tongue. People hate that. They know it could fool them.

I rarely said "I have depression" or "I am currently experiencing depression", because I imagined that depression was the sum of who I was... the trouble is, that I had a very binary view of things. I thought that you were either well or ill, sane or insane.

We are made to feel poor on thirty thousand pounds a year. To feel poorly travelled if we have been to only ten other countries. To feel too old if we have a wrinkle. To feel ugly if we aren't photoshopped and filtered.

She knew that everything humans see is a simplification. A human sees the world in three dimensions. That is a simplification. Humans are fundamentally limited, generalizing creatures, living on auto-pilot, who straighten out curved streets in their minds, which explains why they get lost all the time.

We are being taught to think of a time different to the time we are in. Exam time. Job time. When-we-are-grown-up time.

A photograph is basically a two-dimensional nonmoving holograph catering only to the sense of sight.

We are made to feel poor on thirty thousand pounds a year. To feel poorly travelled if we have been to only ten other countries. To feel too old if we have a wrinkle. To feel ugly if we aren't photoshopped and filtered. No

the mind-boggling bit is that the theory hints that the entire universe is just two-dimensional information on a cosmological horizon and that everything we think we see in three dimensions is really as much an illusion as a 3D movie, and it could all be a simulation. So really, the world (and everything) might be flat after all. And then again it might not be.)