Quotes About Perception

There was this guy lying on the couch," Laila recalled. "I had no idea who he was. I just remember thinking, 'Uh-oh.' I had this feeling as if a bomb had dropped. I kind of knew from the second I saw him that I would either love him or hate him.

Es gibt keine gute Nachricht. Nur weil es eine schlechte Nachricht gibt, muss es nicht zwangsläufig gute Nachrichten geben.

It made me happy that poems are referred to in the present tense even when the poet is in the past tense.

El sonido más solitario del mundo es el que producen otras personas haciendo el amor.

I am aware that I am aware

If this is a dream the whole world is inside it.

Start admiring the vastness of the forest and a tree will surely fall on you, bashing your skull for the crime of perspective.

In certain ways I am deeply stupid. I don't say this out of modesty. I believe that I'm more intelligent than the average human being, though perhaps intelligence should not be looked at as a single gauge, like a speedometer, but as a full array of tachometers, odometers, altimeters, and the rest.

De waarheid mag dan vreemder zijn dan de verbeelding, maar vraagt wel om een betere redacteur. Het grootste deel van het leven van een mens is de moeite van het onthouden niet waard.

Kalian tidak akan menembak jika kami berdiri?" "Tidak jika kami suka tampang kalian." "Ibu kalian pasti suka tampangku," gerutu Kolya.

might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.

I can still feel it. I don't mean 'in my tender heart, it still pains me so.' I can still feel what he did, in my body, standing here, right now.

What is a crow but a dove dipped in pitch? And what is a man but a dog cursed with words?

She left feeling dirty, and on the bus ride home she knew that what her uncles told her had come true: she had been attracted to an object that was beautiful, and she had become spellbound, and then its shape had changed, and what had appeared beautiful had turned ugly.

They saw the world in different ways. For him, life was like a story that had answers, or a conclusion that made sense. For her, the story was sinuous and unclear, and if there was happiness to be had, it might arrive announced, or it might land in the arms of another person.

As in zoology, monsters exist in art. It is the pervert of the formation of words, lines, colors, and sounds.

They paint what they see and we paint what we are watching.

There is a system of belief adequate to the complexity of experience

You can't judge a book by its cover," he said. "No," said Watts. "But you can tell how much it's gonna cost!

Place the tip of a stick in a clear brook and you'll see it "bend" underwater because the speed of light is literally slower beneath the surface than it is in air.

The Private Life of the Brain (New York: John Wiley, 2000); John McCrone's Going Inside: A Tour Round a Single Moment of Consciousness (London: Faber and Faber, 1999) is a more easygoing, detailed exploration. David Hubel's Eye, Brain and Vision (San Francisco: Scientific American Library, 1988) is a fine vision of what seeing entails, presented by the scientist who did much to reveal

Then there is the further question of what is the relationship of thinking to reality. As careful attention shows, thought itself is in an actual process of movement.

Perhaps there is more sense in our nonsense and more nonsense in our 'sense' than we would care to believe.

The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.