Quotes About Perception

But this upland pass was the right place for remembering how, when I was young, I learned to feel for the harshness underneath every soft appearance.

I tried not to think about it. But every so often it would burst out of me - why did he do something so unkind? What had I done to deserve it? I did believe, from my experience of life and of looking at the world, that men hated women. But there were all kinds of exceptions, and I'd have bet everything that this man didn't hate me, this woman.

Though it seemed trivial, now, to describe a place as if what is was, was what I could see of it.

Did anyone ever hear of an intelligent fantasy?

Debe rebasarse necesariamente la corteza para descubrir, tras la apariencia, la verdadera esencia de las cosas. El envoltorio, en definitiva, no cuenta. Un precepto que vale para juzgar no sólo las palabras, sino también las cosas y los hombres.

one group's resistance fighter is another group's rogue.

Stories are wonderful, enjoyable, and scrumptious things. In the old days, they were served on thin plates called pages. You ate them with your eyes. And they didn't go down to your tummy, like normal food. No, they went into a dream machine inside your head.

He or she that ignored wisdom and knowledge, ignored his or her deliverances

Love is not by sight but by mind

Paradox of Information wherein we can know too many things without knowing what those "things" are.

I wanted to paint a picture some day that people would stand before and forget that it was made of paint. I wanted it to creep into them like a bar of music and mushroom there like a soft bullet.

There are stories in everything. I've got some of my best yarns from park benches, lampposts, and newspaper stands.

He studied cities as women study their reflections.

A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.

The limitations of man's perception might seem to lead to despair. But the very fact that God has an overarching plan that embraces every human experience points in the opposite direction. You, your daily moment-by-moment circumstances, your final end are all "from the hand of God" (Eccl. 2:24). In this confidence you may deal with the vanity, the frustrations, the transitoriness of daily life.

The pursuit of truth, not of facts, is the business of fiction.

Kelimeler, albay?m, baz? anlamlara gelmiyor.

Beni anlam?yorlard?. Zarar yok. Zaten beni, daha kimler anlamad?.

Gerçek ba?kalar?n?n bize uygulamaya çal??t??? tats?z bir ölçüdür. birimi insand?r.

Onlara göre, durmadan kitap okudu?um -hat?rlad???ma göre çok okumazd?m do?rusu- ve misafirlerin yan?na ç?kmad???m -bu 'yan?na ç?kmak' deyimi beni ürpertirdi, içime bulant? verirdi- ve gereken yerde gereken kelimeyi bulamad???m için -bu nedenle bana aptal da derlerdi- anormaldim.

Fakat, sonradan garson olmu? bir filozof ya da filozof olmu? bir garsona göre, insanlar kar???k salataya benzer.

Moment ad?nda bir kavram: ne otobüste ç?kar kar??m?za ne de sinemada. Kimse birbirini öldürmez moment yüzünden. Bizim s?n?fta biri vard?: momente inanm?yorum diye tutturmu?tu. Ben nefret ediyorum momentten: günümü zehir ediyor.

Art?k hayatta yeteri kadar ac? var, insanlar bunu görmek için tiyatroya gitmezler art?k.

Hayatta ba?ar? kazanan bütün insanlar?n, okul y?llar? ba?ar?s?z geçmi?ti. Çal??kan olmak ilerisi için kötü bir i?aretti. Böyle insanlar para kazanamaz, kad?nlarla ili?kide ba?ar?ya ula?amazd?. En kötüsü, hayat?n d???nda kal?rd?. ?nsanlar?n ?st?raplar?na yabanc? olurdu. Hiçbir zaman gerçekleri göremezdi.