Quotes About Perception

Las verdades no están en la circunferencia de un círculo cuyo centro es el hombre. Las verdades se levantan en parajes fragosos que el hombre recorre siguiendo los meandros de una senda sinuosa que las revela, las oculta, finalmente las ostenta o las esconde.

Un diploma de dentista es respetable, pero uno de filósofo es grotesco.

It is impossible to convince the fool that there are pleasures superior to those we share with the rest of the animals.

Replacing the concrete sense perception of the object with its abstract intellectual construction makes man gain the world and lose his soul.

The newspaper collects the previous day's garbage in order to feed it to us for breakfast.

It is easy to believe that we partake of certain virtues when we share in the defects they imply.

Perception of reality, today, dies crushed between modern work and modern entertainment.

Het gevaarlijke idee is niet het valse, maar het gedeeltelijk juiste.

Cambiano meno gli uomini le idee che le idee i loro travestimenti. Nel corso dei secoli dialogano le stesse voci.

Chi si lamenta dell'angustia dell'ambiente in cui vive pretende che siano gli avvenimenti, i vicini, i paesaggi a fornirgli la sensibilità e l'intelligenza che la natura gli ha negato.

Only the defeated come to possess sound ideas about the nature of things.

Making us feel intelligent is how nature notifies us that we are saying something stupid.

Im Universum gibt es Inseln der Ordnung. Aber die angebliche Ordnung des Universums ist ein ideologisches Artefakt.

Replacing the concrete sense perception of the object with its abstract intellectual construction makes man gain the world and lose his soul. What draws us away from God is not sensuality but abstraction.

Quienes gimen sobre la estrechez del medio en que viven pretenden que los acontecimientos, los vecinos, los paisajes, les den la sensibilidad y la inteligencia que la naturaleza les negó.

Modern man does not live in space and time, but in geometry and chronometry.

The egalitarian passion is a perversion of the critical sense: atrophy of the faculty of discrimination.

In light of the majority of people today, one prefers them to speak hostile of religion

The effect of democratic rhetoric on taste is called disgust.

Whoever is curious about how to measure his stupidity should count the number of things that seem obvious to him.

False elegance is preferable to genuine vulgarity. The man who dwells in an imaginary palace demands more from himself than the man who is happy with his hovel.

The psychological mechanism of the individual "without prejudices" lacks interest.

Man today does not live in space and time. But in geometry and chronometers.

La técnica induce insidiosamente a convertir sus categorías reguladoras de la acción en categorías constitutivas de la realidad.