Quotes About Perception

Unless consumed in highly skilled ritual contexts, as is practiced in many traditional societies, what drugs in fact do is reduce our perception of both what can be accomplished and what we as individuals are able to accomplish, until the two are in balance. This

the past can never be literally true in memory: it must be continuously edited, and the question is only whether we take creative control of the editing or not.

the information we allow into consciousness becomes extremely important; it in, in fact, what determines the content and quality of life.

competition as their main feature, such as most sports and athletic events; alea is the class that includes all games of chance, from dice to bingo; ilinx, or vertigo, is the name he gives to activities that alter consciousness by scrambling ordinary perception, such as riding a merry-go-round or skydiving; and mimicry is the group of activities in which alternative realities are created, such as dance, theater, and the arts in general.

Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them," said Epictetus a long time ago. And the great emperor Marcus Aurelius wrote: "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.

Yet a culture could not survive long unless all of its members paid attention to at least a few of the same things. In fact it could be said that a culture exists when the majority of people agree that painting X deserves more attention than painting Y, or idea X deserves more thought than idea Y.

It also seems true that centers of creativity tend to be at the intersection of different cultures, where beliefs, lifestyles, and knowledge mingle and allow individuals to see new combinations of ideas with greater ease. In cultures that are uniform and rigid, it takes a greater investment of attention to achieve new ways of thinking. In other words, creativity is more likely in places where new ideas require less effort to be perceived.

Most events in consciousness are built from culturally defined contents as well as from personal meanings developed throughout an individual's life. Thus, two persons can never be expected to have the same experience, and the farther apart in time and place they are, the more the details of the two experiences will differ.

The word success is an ambiguous word. Success with respect to the outside? Or success with respect to oneself? And if it is a success with respect to the outside, then how do you evaluate it? Very often outside success is irrelevant, wrong, and misplaced. So how can one talk about it? Externally, you may think I am successful because people write about some aspects of my work. But that is an external judgment. And I have no idea as to how to value that judgment.

It is not the skills we actually have that determine how we feel but the ones we think we have.

A woman will always accept such talk, however false she knows it to be. The older and uglier she is the more readily will she do so, because she desires to believe it

el hombre no cambia aun cuando cambien sus hábitos y las palabras de su lengua. Los hombres revolotean alrededor de la mentira como las moscas alrededor de un panal de miel...

Pragnij, by twój puchar byÅ' peÅ'ny, chÅ'opcze, i nie zadowalaj siÄ™ wszystkim, co ci bÄ™dÄ… mówi?, lecz ufaj bardziej swoim bystrym oczom.

Los hombres revolotean alrededor de la mentira como las moscas alrededor de un panal de miel, y las palabras del narrador

K dlouhému vÄ›ku se druží ?asto zkalení zraku a sklon považovat dávnÄ›jÅ¡í doby za lepÅ¡í dneÅ¡ních.

was understandable

nothing angers a woman more than the discovery that in the relationship between man and man there are things that women can never understand.

Ella me miró y el tiempo se detuvo, el Sol dejó de girar alrededor de la tierra y el pasado se fundió con el futuro; no existió sino el presente, ese instante de vida que ni el tiempo más celoso podía arrebatar

Puheesi on kuin kärpäsen surinaa korvissani.

Tus palabras son como un zumbido de moscas en mis oídos

Ju? wtedy wyglÄ…daÅ' na imbecyla, jak wielu perkusistów podczas gry, chocia? w innych okolicznoÅ›ciach wyglÄ…dajÄ… caÅ'kiem normalnie.

Na pocz?tku cz?sto z Niil? dyskutowali?my, czy nasze granie mo?na uzna? za knapsu. S?owo jest tornedalsko-fi?skie i oznacza "babski", zatem co?, czym zajmuj? si? tylko kobiety. Mo?na by powiedzie?, ?e rola m??czyzn w Tornedalen ogranicza si? tylko do jednego: nie by? knapsu.

Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "Man surrounds himself with images of himself.

And these pro-choicers seem undeterred by the fact that three out of four women choose not to identify with the term 'feminist'.