Quotes About Perception

Que la vida no es más que una quimera; Una ilusión, un sueño sin orillas, Una pequeña nube pasajera.

Llore si le parece. Yo por mi parte me muero de risa.

Que la vida no es más que una quimera; Una ilusión, un sueño sin orillas, Una pequeña nube pasajera. Vamos

creo más en el verbo que en la acción pero no se me juzgue por lo que digo sino por lo que dejo de decir

To analyze is to renounce yourself One can reason only in a circle One sees only what one wants to see Birth solves nothing I admit I'm crying.

Si he de conceder crédito a lo dicho por la gente que trajo la noticia debo creer, sin vacilar un punto, que murió con mi nombre en las pupilas

XIV Solo con la belleza me conformo La fealdad me produce dolor I go along only with beauty Ugliness hurts me.

Within families, you're stuck with the character they think you are, whatever you do. You become a war hero and all that your parents ever talk about is something supposedly funny you used to do when you were in nursery school.

Real life is an overrated idea.

You never step into the same river twice,

Memory is a lie, a creative act, a flimsy shield against the truth.

If there's a wasp in the room, you'd rather know where it is.

I hate the truth!" "You don't need to like it. It's something we live with, like water or light.

Some people always look respectable, I thought, and some people never do. Give Doll a bath, a haircut, a shave, a manicure, dress him in a thousand-pound suit, and he'd still look unwashed and somehow unsavoury. You couldn't clean off his past.

No hace falta estar familiarizado con la muerte para reconocerla.

The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.

Because there are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, the third is useless.

The vulgar crowd always is taken by appearances, and the world consists chiefly of the vulgar.

There is nothing more important than appearing to be religious.

Monsters don't exist. It's men you should be afraid of, not monsters.

Stop all this talk about monsters, Michele. Monsters don't exist. It's men you should be afraid of, not monsters.

La fantasia è crudele, si sovrappone alla realtà come carta velina.

Devi avere paura degli uomini, non dei mostri.

There are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, the third is useless.