Quotes About Perception

God speaks in the language you know best—not through your ears, but through your circumstances.

We tend to think that a little anxiety and worry are simply an indication of how wise we really are, yet it is actually a much better indication of just how wicked we are.

There are some things over which we may lose faith if we have confidence in God's power only. There is so much that looks like the mighty power of God that is not.

3 de maio Aprendi com meu filho de dez anos Que a poesia é a descoberta Das coisas que eu nunca vi

The primitive man experiences "soul," first in other men and then in himself, as a Numen, just as he knows numina of the outer world, and develops his impressions in mythological form. His words for these things are symbols, sounds, not descriptive of the indescribable but indicative of it for him who hath ears to hear.

Jeder Grieche hat einen Zug von Don Quijotte, jeder Römer einen von Sancho Pansa - was sie sonst noch waren, tritt dahinter zurück.

Der Farbige durchschaut den Weißen, wenn er von "Menschheit" und ewigem Frieden redet. Er wittert die Unfähigkeit und den fehlenden Willen, sich zu verteidigen.

was ihm auffällt macht er zu worten dazwischen aber ist mangel.

Non indagate le cose a partire dalle parole, ma indagate le parole a partire dalle cose

He wondered why nothing was ever like you thought it would be and then he realized it was because you never thought this would be you. She

a town that smelled of chicken guts, hog manure, and rampant incest, which seemed to be the three main industries.

You think people open their eyes just because you tell them to look? There's no happily-ever-after on this. You're dreaming.

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

In the psychical sphere there are no facts, but only interpretations of them.

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them

Great men have always preferred women of the prostitute type.

There are men who are willing to marry a woman they do not care about merely because she is admired by other men. Such a relation exists between many men and their thoughts.

To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

I only care for the subjective life; I am very German, you see: The woods interest me, and the world does not.

He mistook, as the cleverest men often do mistake, in underrating the cruelty of women.

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.