Quotes About Perception

A person who is sixty and healthy almost surely will live many more years. But sixty is about the age when people stop being surprised if you look old or feel sick or drop dead.

Moderne Malerei ist jener Wandbehang, dem das häppchenverdrückende und plaudernde Publikum bei Vernissagen seinen Rücken zukehrt.

Die größte Sorge des zeitgenössischen Intellektuellen ist die, man könne ihn für altmodisch und gestrig halten. Das dürfte auch der Grund sein, warum die moderne Kunst inzwischen quasi unkritisierbar ist.

Es fragt sich, warum die moderne bildende Kunst immer noch in den Feuilletons der Zeitungen behandelt wird und nicht gleich im Wirtschaftsteil.

The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.

The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by other people's rules, while quietly playing by your own.

Lawrence: A man who gives himself to the possession of aliens leads a Yahoo life. In my case my effort for these years to live in the dress of Arabs, and to imitate their mental foundation, quitted me of my English self, and let me look at the West and its conventions with new eyes, and destroyed it all for me. At the same time I could not sincerely take on the Arab skin: it was an affectation only.

what still blew them all away was time itself, the days and months and the years, oh yes, the years. They went faster than anything man had the capacity to invent, so fast that for a while they fooled you into thinking they were slow, and was there any crueler trick than that?

People believed that they were haunted by bad memories, but that wasn't the truth. The most sinister hauntings were from unrealized futures.

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Dimly lit restaurants always make me think they're trying to hide the food.

When a little voice inside of you tells you to duck, you should duck first, and then worry about where the voice is coming from.

As long as we continue to perceive our life as purely a physical occurrence, or as a mental construct that has become manifest physically, our attempt to transform the quality of our experience within it remains ineffectual.

Whatever we place our attention upon becomes more because we place our attention upon it. If we talk about terror, read about terror, think about terror, watch fear-based programming on the television, then we appreciate terror. This is why all masters of manifestation instruct us to place our attention on the feelings of what we seek, not upon what we do not seek.

Because marijuana is so efficient at cutting off all authentic awareness of our emotional body condition, it allows us to actually believe we are peace-loving people.

Second, the other person is not the object of intentionality, strictly speaking; the self is not conscious of the other person as Other.[30]

Take the story of David. The way poor King Saul gets written about, it's like he's an idiot and a maniac, because you think, well, it was written by David's guys. But by the end, David looks more like the idiot and maniac, even though he's supposed to be the hero. Point: there comes a time in everyone's life when only the truth will do, and you have to look reality square in the eyes.

You can't see reality. You never could: You just distort the truth until you end up with a version you can live with.

Lord, I don't understand it, but when a person does something wrong, it never feels wrong until later. It's never as evil as you'd imagined.

People who think they know what they are talking about when they talk about baseball include the announcers and all of the sports press - no matter how much evidence you present them to the contrary they will continue to think that what they think is right.

Those who know don't tell and those who tell don't know.

He was ignorant, but a lot of people mistook ignorance for stupidity, and knowingness for intelligence.

and the stories we tell ourselves to make sense of ourselves and the world are all-powerful.

No, she's not," she said, shaking her head, looking right through me. "She's the daughter of someone who no longer exists." 67 Iwalked outside, the interior of the Jordan home feeling toxic and ugly.