Quotes About Perception

A representation, which is collectively mistaken for an ultimate—ought not to be called a representation. It is an idol. Thus the phenomena themselves are idols, when they are imagined as enjoying that independence of human perception which can in fact only pertain to the unrepresented.

Ser capaz de experimentar las representaciones como ídolos, y además ser capaz de ejecutar conscientemente el acto de figuración y de experimentarlas como participadas: eso es la imaginación.

You are speakin' low like me," he answered. "But we have no dream we can wake from

So I perceived a new example of the old truth, that the letter means nothing until the spirit gives it life.

I ain't sure whether you're crazy or not," said he to the man in the lookin-glass. "I ain't never been sure.

All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the Seventies sounds nothing like the stuff from the Eighties, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the Nineties. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?

Still, one of the few good things about being dyslexic is that when I say I don't read reviews, I mean I don't read reviews.

I remember coming to in white room, with white walls, and people all around me covered in white sheets and thinking, F**k, I'm in the morgue. Then I heard a hissing noise next to my bed. Pssst, pssst. I looked down and there was this kid holding up a pen and a copy of "Bark at the Moon" . 'Will you sign this for me?' he asked. 'F**k off,' I told him. 'I'm dead.'

You never really know what's going on inside Tony Iommi's head. He's the total opposite of me, in other words: no one's ever in any doubt about what's going on in the pile of old jelly inside my thick skull.

Today you hear people saying that we invented heavy metal with the song 'Black Sabbath' . But I've always had a bee up my arse about the term 'heavy metal'. To me, it doesn't say anything musically, especially now that you've got seventies heavy metal , eighties heavy metal , nineties heavy metal and new - millennium heavy metal – which are all completely different, even though people talk about them like they're all the same.

My wife can sniff out a lie from six thousand miles away. And I'm the world's worst liar, anyway.

Advertising is like learning -- a little is a dangerous thing.

Mármost ha az a helyzet, hogy mindenki tök, csak mi állunk a vártán ragyogón, okosan, mint a nap, akkor azért érdemes gyanút fogni.

Kutya nehéz úgy hazudni, ha az ember nem ösmeri az igazságot.

Az úgynevezett irodalmi szenzációk többnyire nem irodalmiak, bár mivel azt, mi az irodalom, nem tudja senki élÅ' ember, azt is jótékony homály fedi, mi az irodalmi szenzáció. Talán itt is úgy van, hogy az az, amit annak mondanak.

The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

No good can come of association with anything labelled Gwladys or Ysobel or Ethyl or Mabelle or Kathryn. But particularly Gwladys.

Alcohol is a misunderstood vitamin.

The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.

People are always angry at America. They're absolutely certain that America either caused their problems or is deliberately not fixing their problems. But the anger is always directed at America and never at Americans.

I think it's been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil. Those of us who have had experience with Islam understand this, just as we understand the difference between snake handlers and people going to church on Sunday morning.

Politicians are interested in people. Not that it is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs.

Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen.

The public appears disposed to be amused even when they are conscious of being deceived.