Quotes About Perception

No debe importarnos tanto lo que uno quiera decir como lo que diga sin querer...

Seyri bizi olduÄŸumuzdan daha iyi k?lmayan güzellik güzellik deÄŸildir.

Amor definido deja de serlo...

Como sólo está de veras cuerdo el que tiene consciencia de su locura

El amor precede al conocimiento, y este mata a aquel.

Eso pasa mucho; el mote mismo que damos a alguien nos suena muy de otro modo cuando se lo oímos a otro

We men do nothing but lie and make ourselves important. Speech was invented for the purpose of magnifying all of our sensations and impressions — perhaps so that we could believe in them.

It is not usually our ideas that make us optimists or pessimists, but it is our optimism or pessimism that makes our ideas.

No, no es que me miró, es que me envolvió en su mirada; y no es que creí en Dios, sino que me creí un dios

Algo se marchitó de repente muy dentro de su ser: quizá la fe en la perennidad de la infancia. Advirtió que todos acabarían muriendo, los viejos y los niños. Él nunca se paró a pensarlo y, al hacerlo ahora, una sensación punzante y angustiosa casi le asfixiaba. Vivir de esta manera era algo brillante y, a la vez, terriblemente tétrico y desolado. Vivir era ir muriendo día a día, poquito a poco, inexorablemente.

Empezaba a darse cuenta de que la vida es pródiga en hechos que antes de acontecer parecen inverosímiles y luego, cuando sobrevienen, se percata uno de que no tienen nada de inextricables ni de sorprendentes.

La afición a la lectura ha llegado a ser tan sospechosa que el analfabetismo se hace deseable y honroso.

Take care, your worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills.

If others tell us something we make assumptions, and if they don't tell us something we make assumptions to fulfill our need to know and to replace the need to communicate. Even if we hear something and we don't understand we make assumptions about what it means and then believe the assumptions. We make all sorts of assumptions because we don't have the courage to ask questions.

The English language is mysterious. The secret of our dog is to be found in it. 'Dog' spelt backwards is 'God'. The dog, then, is the road which, if travelled backwards, from the deepest depths, from the roots of the tree of smell, touch and taste, will turn you into a God. Thus the dog is the guide of the Blind Traveller, of the Pilgrim of Immortality. It is God backwards.

Todas as éticas são evolutivas: o que hoje é normal, amanhã será horrendo e o que hoje é crime, amanhã será banal.

Não posso negar o que vi, o que cheirei, o que senti, o que amei.

a terra pertence ao dono, mas a paisagem pertence a quem a sabe olhar.

A fi cum spui, badica, dar cel ce spune multe stie putine.

Azi ii lumea rea si femeile-s fudule.

Vitoria il judeca pe Lipan. Avea ea sa-i spuie multe, si le spunea, fara sa miste buzele si limba. I le spunea din launtru, cu banuieli si suferinti vechi.

Gafita e o fudula si se crede frumusetea lumii, pentru ca barbatu-sau o poarta gatita. Frumoasa i s-a fi parand lui dar nu este.

The good things in life do not come only through the senses. Some of the most exhilarating experiences we undergo are generated inside the mind, triggered by information that challenges our ability to think, rather than from the use of sensory skills.

If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now.