Quotes About Perception

The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour and not appearance.

She wins who calls herself beautiful and challenges the world to change to truly see her.

The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has become her "beauty.

Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.

Is the beauty myth good to men? It hurts them by teaching them how to avoid loving women. It prevents men from actually seeing women. It does not, contrary to its own professed ideology, stimulate and gratify sexual longing. In suggesting a vision in place of a woman, it has a numbing effect, reducing all senses but the visual, and impairing even that.

All celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view

The poor man and the beggar are two quite different classes: one commands respect, the other arouses anger.

If I am often seen at the theatre, people will cease to notice me.

History is a series of lies on which we agree.

The human race is governed by its imagination.

Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

No one knows how it is that with one glance a boy can break through into a girl's heart.

In war, character and opinion make more than half of the reality.

All celebrated people lose dignity upon close inspection.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets..

Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.

What is the government? Nothing, unless supported by opinion.

We frustrate many designs against us by pretending not to see them.

It is a mistake, too, to say that the face is the mirror of the soul. The truth is, men are very hard to know, and yet, not to be deceived, we must judge them by their present actions, but for the present only.

Those who receive the most images into their memories have the most lively imaginations.

Es gibt kein gutmütigeres, aber auch kein leichtgläubigeres Volk als das deutsche. Keine Lüge kann grob genug ersonnen werden, die Deutschen glauben sie. Um eine Parole, die man ihnen gab, verfolgen sie ihre Landsleute mit größerer Erbitterung als ihre wirklichen Feinde.