Quotes About Perception

What is truth?" I said. "Is it the shallow assurance that something literally took place, or is it about something far deeper, something that is profoundly true— on all levels? Not just the literal one. It's like poetry.

Ironically, those with the least to say usually say the most and the most outwardly religious were often the most theologically unsophisticated.

I read nonfiction for information, fiction for truth.

This undermines a central tenet of progressivism, that now we're all smart but before everyone used to be dumb (how convenient for us!).

My main point was that we live in a culture where everyone working for President Trump is brazenly referred to as a White Supremacist or a Nazi, even Jewish advisors like Jared Kushner.

Cernovich has cleverly repackaged such concepts in a manner friendly for guys, and in the process he has given men permission to engage in these activities without feeling stigmatized. It's akin to when Coca-Cola invented Coke Zero, which was conceived as a male alternative for those were too embarrassed by the perceived effeminacy of ordering a Diet Coke.

To call something crazy is to confess that one doesn't understand it.

The New Right goal is for the public to view the corporate press in the exact same way as they view Chesterfields: as self-serving merchants of death who have their own agenda that is often malignant but never healthy.

I was reminded of the words of Harlem renaissance writer Zora Neale Hurston: "Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company

Because the evangelical left—like most human beings—is highly lacking in empathy and unable to perceive other points of view, its members tend to equate their perspective with universally perceived truth.

Time is so terribly inconsistent, I find, the way it hurries on or stands still.

suppose it was an uninformed jab at my family background (he thought we were rich), and what he really meant was, "At least Mangum has to work for a living." The D.A. confused class with wealth—often the case with those who lack the former.

Hey presto: time travel. You don't need a time machine, it turns out, you just need a friend to laugh like a teenager. Chronology shivers.

I guess, like some guy once said, if triangles invented a god, the chances are high it would have three sides.

All non-smokers seem to live in the belief that smokers have wandered naively through life, bereft of the knowledge that their habit is extremely bad for them.

There are still normal people around, they just changed the definition of normal

Had people become so accustomed to not looking that they were no longer able to see?

We had two dead white girls in a city that was six-sevenths black.

È un errore madornale credere che i pettegolezzi interessino più alle donne che agli uomini.

Sometime between the Obama-Medvedev summit in Prague in 2010 and Putin's invasion of Ukraine in 2014, public opinion in both countries also flipped: solid majorities in both Russia and the United States now perceived each other as enemies.

Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak hosted me at his residence for a particularly warm, elaborate, and meaningful dinner. He invited all of my friends in the U.S. government, as well as a few of my important informal outside advisors who had participated in developing the ideas of the Reset. Three years earlier, Kislyak and I had started our relationship with our fists up. But over the years, he had grown on me. We were very different people in so many ways, and yet I felt like we clicked. He

Whether we know it or not, our lives are acts of imagination and the world is continually re-imagined through us.

Education at a deep level means to 'lead out' what is trying to be born from within. The job of a true teacher is to help awaken the inner pupil that has its own way of being and unique way of perceiving the world.

When seen with imagination, all things shift toward meaning, releasing energies that are hidden within appearances, releasing the inner wings of spirit, opening wide the doors to healing and wholeness.