Quotes About Perception

It boggles my mind that people think they're practicing real political advocacy by watching major corporate TV, be it Fox or MSNBC or CNN. Does anyone seriously believe that powerful people would allow truly dangerous ideas to be broadcast on TV?

More than any other politician in recent memory, Bernie Sanders is focused on reality. It's the rest of us who are lost.

In the elaborate con that is American electoral politics, the Republican voter has long been the easiest mark in the game, the biggest dope in the room. Everyone inside the Beltway knows this. The Republican voters themselves are the only ones who never saw it. Elections

The news was once a placid ritual designed to amp down the viewer's political reflex.

When the Crossfire paradigm loses its force, all that's left is a bunch of people with different views all sitting together in a room, wondering why they're all paying three bucks a gallon for gas, why they have no health insurance, why their tax rates are higher than Warren Buffet's. If we're all equally a bunch of suckers, how could any of us be worth hating?

How thick the bursts come crowding through the leaves! Again thou hearest? Eternal passion! Eternal pain!

Miracles do not happen.

We count the hours: these dreams of ours, false and hollow, Shall we go hence and find they are not dead?

For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.

Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.

Let the long contention cease!Geese are swans, and swans are geese.

Hither and thither spinsThe windborne, mirroring soul;A thousand glimpses wins,And never sees a whole.

Everything in our political life tends to hide from us that there is anything wiser than our ordinary selves.

One has often wondered whether upon the whole earth there is anything so unintelligent, so unapt to perceive how the world is really going, as an ordinary young Englishman of our upper class

Tis not the times, 'Tis not the Sophists vex him: There is some root of suffering in himself, Some secret and unfollow'd vein of woe, Which makes the times look black and sad to him. Empedocles on Etna: Act I, Scene I

Everything in our political life tends to hide from us that there is anything wiser than our ordinary selves, and to prevent our getting the notion of a paramount right reason.

Not deep the poet sees, but wide. –

The normalcy bias can kill you.

Surfaces are important," he said. "Don't make the mistake of thinking that answers can only be found in the depths of things. In their guts. Sometimes, what you are looking for is right there, written all over the face.

When I hear people fondly recalling their past, I hear Death sharpening his knives.

It is only when the pain of perpetuating old behavior patterns is perceived to be greater than the pain brought about by trying to change those patterns that we are able to effect and sustain significant psychological and behavioral modifications.

Do not confuse beauty with beautiful. Beautiful is a human judgment. Beauty is All. The difference is everything.

But, sooner or later I'd love to do a comedy. I mean I think that, you know, people don't think that that's in my wheelhouse because I've sort of played a lot of dramatic stuff and that's certainly a side of myself that I want at some point in the right context, in the right stuff, that I find really funny.

The state of Illinois contained twenty-seven different time zones, Wisconsin thirty-eight. In Pittsburgh the train station had six clocks, and each one showed a different time. When a clock struck noon in Washington, D.C., the time was 12:08 in Philadelphia, 12:12 in New York, and 12:24 in Boston.