Quotes About Perception

Whatever you see has the potential to wound you, to make you less than you are, as if merely by seeing a thing some part of yourself were taken away from you.

Die Welt ist in meinem Kopf. Mein Körper ist in der Welt.

el arte era una actividad humana que se apoyaba en los sentidos para llegar al alma,

For what does it mean to look at something, a real object in the real world, an animal, for example, and say that it is something other than what it is? It is to say that each thing leads a double life, at once in the world and in our minds, and that to deny either one of these lives is to kill the thing in both its lives at once.

One would have to be nearly unconscious not to see, or at least not to feel, that the house was no longer the same. "Habit", as one of Beckett's characters says, "it's a great deadener", And if the mind is unable to respond to the physical evidence, what will it do when confronted with the emotional evidence?

One beer too many, and a verbal dispute suddenly and unexpectedly explodes into a punching match. Such things happen every night in bars, pubs, and cafés all across the world, but the bloody noses and aching jaws that generally follow from these dustups in Canada, Norway, or France often turn out to be gunshot wounds in the United States.

Put something in the wrong place, and even though it is still there—quite possibly smack under your nose—it can vanish for the rest of time.

for her laugh wasn't the squealing, out-of-control noise of a child, he noted, but a succession of gut-deep, resonant guffaws—merry yaps, to be sure, but at the same time thoughtful, as if she understood why she was laughing, which made her laugh an intelligent laugh, a laugh that laughed at itself even as it laughed at what it was laughing at.

A pulverized apple and a pulverized orange are finally the same thing, aren't they? You

U kom trenutku jedna ku?a prestaje da bude ku?a? Kada joj skinu krov? Kada joj izvade prozore? Kada joj sruše zidove? U kom trenutku postaje gomila šuta?

Still, I had a hunch about it, and if there's one thing I've learned in my long and stupid career as a man, it's the importance of listening to my hunches.

Ferguson was not yet five years old, but he already understood that the world consisted of two realms, the visible and the invisible, and that the things he couldn't see were often more real than the things he could.

He olvidado qué era, dijo. Yo también, dijo Camier. Yo nunca lo supe, dijo Mercier.

Humans are irrational creatures. Many of our decisions are not based on a logical thought process. Our "Reptilian Brain" has an abundance of cognitive biases that prevent us from making choices based on pure logic. Society's perception of the utility of psychedelics is a case in point. Considering the documented history, the scientific findings, and the anecdotal reports, it's obvious that we as a society are not thinking logically about their use.

One, mentioned in a 2017 Economist article, felt "sharper, more aware of what [the] body needs" on 1P-LSD,

I sit in a thickly padded char that, much like this country, isn't quite as comfortable as it looks.

a small sub-Saharan African nation like Detroit.

Our teacher says we're supposed to be colorblind. That's hard to do if you can see color, isn't it?" "Yeah, I'd say so, but I think your teacher means don't make any assumptions based on color." "Cross on the green and not in between.

Jaguar model names sound like rockets: XJ–S, XJ8, E–Type. Hondas sound like cars designed by pacifists and humanitarian diplomats. The Accord, Civic, Insight.

No one has, because even in this middle age, he's sensitive, and if you say the wrong thing, he'll show the world just how sensitive he is by crying at your funeral.

She was thinking about how her middle-school alma mater was now 75 percent Latino, when in her day it was 80 percent black. Thinking

I can think of a more despicable word than 'nigger'", I volunteered. […] "Like what?" "Like any word that ends in –ess: Negress. Jewess. Poetess. Actress. Adultress. Factchecktress. I'd rather be called 'nigger' than 'giantess' any day of the week.

Yes, being black is a full-time job: sometimes you are invisible, other times you are hyper-visible," he says. "Sometimes you are welcome, other times you are not. The thermostat is always moving and you have to keep adapting to find some comfort level. Richard Pryor used to talk about going to Africa and people there telling him he was white. Even though he was black, he just wasn't black enough.

I sit in a thickly padded chair that, much like this country, isn't quite as comfortable as it looks.