Quotes About Perception

Kimi zaman penceredeki manzara, duvara as?lm?? bir tablodur yaln?zca; kimi zaman oda, orada olmam? de?il, bütünü görmemi engelleyen, a?açlar aras?nda bir kabuktan ba?ka bir ?ey de?ildir.

There are pigeonholes in the brain with labels on them such as: To be looked into when I feel like it; Never to be thought of; Useless to follow up; Contents as yet unexamined; A blind alley; A rich vein, but exploitable only in another existence; Urgent; Dangerous; A hard nut to crack; Impossible; Discarded; Put in storage; None of my business; In my line; A teaser…and so forth.

The poem: a prolonged hesitation between sound and sense.

Il y a des personnages qui sentent que leurs sens les séparent du réel, de l'être. Ce sens en eux infecte les autres sens.

Der Mensch lebt und stirbt in dem, was er sieht, aber er sieht nur was er träumt.

La philosophie ne consiste-t-elle pas, après tout, à faire semblant d'ignorer ce que l'on sait et de savoir ce que l'on ignore?

La définition du Beau: il est ce qui désespère.

Quem é mais estranho a si do que aquele que se sente a ver o que vê?

J'ai connu un être bizarre qui croyait tout ce qu'il lisait dans un certain journal, et rien de ce qu'il lisait dans un autre. C'était un original ; enfermé depuis.

La plupart sont aveugles dans cet univers du langage; sourds aux mots qu'ils emploient. Leurs paroles ne sont qu'expédients; et l'expression pour eux n'est qu'un plus court chemin : ce minimum définit l'usage purement pratique du langage. Être compris, ---comprendre, --- sont les bornes entre lesquelles se resserre de plus en plus ce langage pratique, c'est-à-dire, abstrait.

Il faut donc que notre esprit s'excite soi-même à se défaire de sa stupeur et à se reprendre de cette solennelle et immobile surprise qui lui causent le sentiment d'être tout, et l'évidence de n'être rien.

Svojstva tela su utoliko manje poznata ukoliko su stalnija. Što su više kao odvojiva od tela, ili promenjiva, više ih hvatamo. Toplina nam je pristupa?nija nego težina.

Un choc qui nous atteint dans une direction imprévue nous donne brusquement une sensation nouvelle de l'existence de notre corps en tant qu'inconnu; nous ne savions pas tout ce que nous étions, et il arrive que cette sensation brutale nous rende elle-même sensibles, par un effet secondaire, à une grandeur et à une figure inattendues de notre domaine vivant.

A painter should not paint what he sees but what should be seen.

Follow the path of your aroused thought, and you will soon meet this infernal inscription: There is nothing so beautiful as that which does not exist.

Veel van onze angsten berusten op pure inbeelding. Verander je inbeelding en je zult minder angst hebben.

These days, politicians are fodder for stand-up comedians; religion prompts associations with suicide bombers or sexual abuse; and everyone is an artist.

It could be that you have the wrong hands, or the wrong face. It is not your imagination. You do. You have. It is emerging as the condition of our age. Every day there are new ways of being wrong. Explosions are common, but that is not it. We are waking up to it. We are opening our wrong eyes.

When I was younger, the pressure was just being cool. I never thought of myself as a cool guy. I always thought of myself as more of the goofy guy.

I looked at Tarbox and saw he was a dangerous and ugly man. It was as if he had been born in someone's nightmare, then kicked his way out of their head.

It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of one's own view of the nature of one's relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person.

Reading music is like listening to flowers. I don't understand the concept.

The truth is overrated.

Everyone dreams, but not all equally. Those who dream at night in the misty recesses of their mind, often wake to find that it was unfulfilled passion: but day dreamers are dangerous folk, for they may open their eyes, to make dreams possible.