Quotes About Perception

There is, plainly, no deep logic to the unfolding of time.

The second, first thought.

Non si riferisce il reale, lo si proferisce.

La lingua è cosa viva e come tutte le cose vive deve vedersela con larealtà.

Those who don't play chess may tend to think of it as a tedious game, best suited to idle eccentrics and the elderly - people with vast patience and plenty of time to waste.

But some things are best grasped without the sense of sight.

I repeat the names of the cardinal points in Russian: sever, north, desolate asperity of the Gulag; yug, south, a funnel that sucks you down toward the bottom; vostok, east, like the launch of a catapult; and zapad, west, the sound of falling head over heels.

Forse la percezione del mondo non dipende dai luoghi, ma dall'andatura. Se vai lento, ovunque tu sia nella fascia temperata del Globo, le tue notti si popoleranno di grilli, belati, fumo di legno, erbe aromatiche, stelle. D'inverno ti addormenterai circondato di luce lunare fredda, odore di lana infeltrita e letame, tè bollenti e sogni caldi, quelli dove le persone hanno odore e sapore. In una parola, la vita.

Sulla parete, un'icona di San Nicola convive senza problemi con le tette di una bionda da calendario per camionisti.

Let us repeat. The memory of the present is juxtaposed to the perception of the present.

Women's regular bleeding engenders phantoms.

Aquele que imagina que todos os frutos amadurecem ao mesmo tempo, como as cerejas, nada sabe a respeito das uvas.

If you permit your thoughts to dwell on evil you yourself will become ugly. Look only for the good in everything so you absorb the quality of beauty.

Some people change when they think they're a star or something.

Does Wall-Mart sell wall stuff?

Wal-Mart, do they like, sell walls there?

I took my cue from Mom and stuck to that story. I was happy to cast her and Dad as vigilant, fully present parents. That's who they wanted to be. That's who they are: the parents who would go to the ends of the earth for their children. Only in my case, they went to the wrong end.

I try not to think about how easily I slipped through a crack in the floor. It's like, if you were walking down the street with your friends, and suddenly one of them slipped down an open manhole, you'd notice, wouldn't you? I certainly would! I mean . . . I think I would. I hope I would. Or maybe we're all so focused straight ahead, people slip away when we're not looking.

How things look on the outside of us depends on how things are on the inside of us.

Love and hell are alike in that respect; they are what you bring to them. The script is yours; only the props are furnished.

I know why men lose sight of the face of God: because it is so close.

You go through it like a dark room, you sweat, you fear, the fear passes, you come out of it and utter nothing but meaningless words about what you saw or felt.

we cannot see what is "out there" merely by looking around. Everything depends on the lenses through which we view the world. By putting on new lenses, we can see things that would otherwise remain invisible.

does it mean to listen to a voice before it is