Quotes About Perception

Primitive man transforms objects into subjects; modern man transforms subjects into objects. We can suppose that the former deceives himself, but we know with certainty that the latter is wrong.

Las noticias son el substituto de las verdades.

The modern Christian feels professionally obligated to act jovially and jokingly, to show his teeth in a cheerful grin, to profess a slavering friendliness, in order to prove to the unbeliever that Christianity is not a "somber" religion, a "pessimistic" doctrine, an "ascetic" morality. The progressive Christian shakes our hand with the wide grin of a politician running for office.

To discover the fool there is no better reagent than the word "medieval." He immediately sees red.

The technification of the world blunts one's sensibility and does not refine one's senses.

Man has as much of a soul as he believes he has. When that belief dies, man becomes an object.

The historical importance of a man rarely corresponds to his intimate nature. History is full of victorious morons.

A confused idea attracts a fool like a flame attracts an insect.

A paean to justice intoxicates us, because it seems to us to be an apology for the passion, just or unjust, which blinds us.

El gusto no se deshonra con lo que le plazca o deteste, sino con lo que erróneamente equipare.

Photography shows us how the imbecile views the world.

The psychiatrist considers only vulgar behavior sane.

Good taste that has been learned ends up being of worse taste than spontaneous bad taste.

Once he settles down in the country he admires, the foreigner bastardizes exactly that which he admires.

Puedes vender cielo, el cielo azul a veces, o gris también a veces, una parcela de tu cielo, el que compraste, piensas tú, con los árboles] de tu huerto, como quien compra el techo con la casa?] ¿Puedes venderme un dólar de cielo, dos kilómetros de cielo, un trozo, el que tú piensas, de tu cielo?

Remember, the purpose of yoga is clarification of our individual field of consciousness in order to perceive external events clearly and connect to our inner light of awareness, our inner Self.

I must confess that I do not understand why things are so arranged, that women seize us by the nose as deftly as they do the handle of a teapot: either their hands are so constructed, or else our noses are good for nothing else.

Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire. (A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.)

Il n'est point de serpent, ni de monstre odieux, Qui, par l'art imité, ne puisse plaire aux yeux ; D'un pinceau délicat l'artifice agréable Du plus affreux objet fait un objet aimable. Ainsi, pour nous charmer, la Tragédie en pleurs D'Œdipe tout sanglant fit parler les douleurs, D'Oreste parricide exprima les alarmes, Et, pour nous divertir, nous arracha des larmes.

The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so.

Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him.

Praising an honest person who doesn't deserve it, always wounds them.

Now two punctilious envoys, Thine and Mine, Embroil the earth about a fancied line; And, dwelling much on right and much on wrong, Prove how the right is chiefly with the strong.