Quotes About Perception

In leaving something unsaid the beholder is given a chance to complete the idea and thus a great masterpiece irresistibly rivets your attention until you seem to become actually a part of it. A vacuum is there for you to enter and fill up the full measure of your aesthetic emotion.

The primeval man in offering the first garland to his maiden thereby transcended the brute. He became human in thus rising above the crude necessities of nature. He entered the realm of art when he perceived the subtle use of the useless.

Cómo se puede tomar al mundo en serio, siendo el mundo tan ridículo?

At birth he enters the realm of dreams only to awaken to reality at death.

He catches a glimpse of Infinity, but words cannot voice his delight, for the eye has no tongue.

But, after all, we see only our own image in the universe-- our particular idiosyncrasies dictate the mode of our perceptions.

We should be foolish indeed if we valued their achievement simply on the score of age. Yet we allow our historical sympathy to override our aesthetic discrimination.

He entered the realm of art when he perceived the subtle use of the useless.

Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook the greatness of little things in others.

It has been said that man at ten is an animal, at twenty a lunatic, at thirty a failure, at forty a fraud, and at fifty a criminal.

Americans can't stand any stranger looking them in the face. They take it as an insult. It's something they don't forgive. And every American carries a gun. If they catch you, a stranger, looking them in the face, they will shoot.

A wise man sleeps with his eyes and keeps his ears awake.

The white man knows many things," the other whispered back, "but he doesn't know how to tell a good lie.

Olympic Gold changed me and my life dramatically. I became a celebrity overnight and people see me as a famous skater, not a real person.

It takes a lifetime to understand that long ago the grown-ups lied to you, that in fact nothing living, neither a flower, nor a rabbit, nor a person, nor a country, can, in fact, be had: they can only be destroyed, which is the one way to confirm they have been possessed.

we did not actually warm ourselves with vodka in the cold weather, and remained strictly alcohol-free for the entire three weeks of standing in the streets (that's what made it clear to these folks that we were different from Russians);

Men with sound eyes need not concern themselves with the arguments of blind men to prove that seeing cannot occur.

Thus and thus is the world. Seeing the depth, we shall see also the height, and praise both.

These races came to distinguish ever more minute periods of duration, and at the same time to extend their temporal grasp so as to apprehend ever longer periods as "now.

Fame is like dust in a gusty wind. You never know in which way it is blowing. If you ever face the gust of the wind, don't get carried away.

According to research from Laval University in Quebec, time passes most quickly when we're absorbed in an activity; time passes most slowly when we're thinking specifically about how long something is taking—perhaps most often when we're waiting. That's why "the watched pot never boils," even though the watched pot actually takes 9 1/2 minutes to boil,

Perhaps it's only those who don't know us at all who are able to see us most clearly.

Political motivations, though rare, occasionally did raise their heads, more so since 2016, and it brought out the worst in people. Black was white, and patriotism was treachery. Some had the gift of coloring the truth just enough to make it look like a lie, and to carefully prune a lie until it passed the smell test and became accepted truth, not just to the intended audience, but also eventually to the liar himself.

It was like pointillism: Stand too close, and it makes no sense. Step far enough back, and you can see it. Maybe.