Quotes About Perception

It had been very well done, Ronicky decided, Blondy had acquitted himself with just the right edge to his voice. He had not been sickeningly acquiescent. Neither had he been stupidly defiant. But

over and over, you would like to be recognized according to your own self, your own person, your own heart's inclination-but they always ask only what you have done, and really, if you look at it rationally, they have nothing else by which they can judge your state of mind except the manifestations of that state of mind.

Ich muß gestehen, daß ich zuerst den Eindruck hatte, unter Verrückte gefallen zu sein.

Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature.

I think that most people would rather face the light of a real enemy than the darkness of their imagined fears.

The second we see somebody on the street or meet someone, we make snap judgments about them, about who they are and why we wouldn't necessarily sit with them or why we would or what's cool or not cool.

We can teach ourselves to see things the way they ARE. Only with vision can we begin to see things the way they CAN BE.

Wise sayings are not always easy to understand at first. Sometimes it takes effort, time, and maturity to comprehend a deeper insight.

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.

One of the men he worked with was Horsethief Willy. Big Boy was very fond of him. A lot of his ideas on life originated with this man who had once been accused of stealing a horse. They didn't prove the charge, but he got a nickname for life.

Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.

It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.

A joke is a good camouflage. Next best comes sentiment... But the best camouflage of all - in my opinion - is the plain and simple truth. Because nobody ever believes it.

You can put anything into words, except your own life

We live in an age of reproduction. Most of what makes up our personal picture of the world we have never seen with our own eyes--or rather, we've seen it with our own eyes, but not on the spot: our knowledge comes to us from a distance, we are televiewers, telehearers, teleknowers.

Es ist bemerkenswert, dass wir gerade von dem Menschen, den wir lieben, am mindesten aussagen können, wie er sei.

Die beste und sicherste Tarnung ist immer noch die blanke und nackte Wahrheit. Komischerweise die glaubt niemand.

She thought it stupid of a woman to want to be understood by a man; the man (said Hanna) wants the woman to be a mystery, so that he can be inspired and excited by his own incomprehension.

I called her a sentimentalist and artsy-craftsy. She called me Homo Faber.

Wieso seid ihr stärker als die Wahrheit

A society needs famous people; the question is whom it chooses for that role. Any criticism of its choice is by implication a criticism of that society.

Es gibt allerlei Arten, einen Menschen zu morden oder wenigstens seine Seele, und das merkt keine Polizei der Welt. Dann genügt ein Wort, eine Offenheit im rechten Augenblick. Dann genügt ein Lächeln. Ich möchte den Menschen sehen, der nicht durch Lächeln umzubringen ist oder durch Schweigen.

Ich kann es nicht ausstehen, wenn man mir sagt, was ich zu empfinden habe; dann komme ich mir, obschon ich sehe, wovon die Rede ist, wie ein Blinder vor.

In action, there was a fine line between courage which heartened others and bluster which incurred their contempt.