Quotes About Perception

When you're young, you think that sex is the culmination of intimacy. Later you discover that it's barely the beginning.

It may be necessary to stand on the outside of one is to see things clearly.

That's where we humans make a mistake. We don't see the utterly amazing when it comes to us disguised as the ordinary.

She looked at him. As if she wanted to determine his molecular weight.

There's a widespread notion that children are open, that the truth about their inner selves just seeps out of them. That's all wrong. No one is more covert than a child, and no one has greater cause to be that way. It's a response to a world that is always using a tin-opener on them to see what they have inside, just in case it ought to be replaced with a more useful type of tinned foodstuff.

Die Ansicht, dass Kinder offen sind, dass ihr inneres Wesen sozusagen pur aus ihnen heraussickert, ist weit verbreitet. Das ist falsch. Niemand hält sich bedeckter als ein Kind, niemand muss es so sehr sein. Als Antwort auf eine Welt, die dauernd mit dem Büchsenöffner ankommt, um nachzuschauen, was es in sich hat, ob es nicht vielleicht gegen eine gängigere Konserve eingetauscht werden sollte.

The flakes are the size of tiny feathers, and that's the way snow is, it's not necessarily cold.

SheAlmighty had tuned each person in a musical key, and Kasper could hear it. Best in the brief, unguarded moments when people were nearby but didn't yet know he was listening. So he waited by the window, as he was doing now.

You draw something...and you get nothing. The you do the same thing again, but this time you get a star and are praised, how come? ...... It's something to do with time.... You got a star because you spent more time on the second drawing. And spent the time in a particular way. We think they have a plan, and that it has to do with time. ...... There's no such thing as better....The second one just fitted in better with their plan.

In the long run, you can never be any better than your surroundings. When you are in the company of people who look down upon themselves as though they are animals, you, too, become like an animal. Or worse, because animals do not despise themselves.

What we discover in nature is not really a matter of what exists; what we find is determined by our ability to understand.

deep inside I know that trying to figure things out leads to blindness, that the desire to understand has a built-in brutality that erases what you seek to comprehend. Only experience is sensitive.

The writers see where we're headed before the scientists do. What we discover in nature is not really a matter of what exists; what we find is determined by our ability to understand.

The true reality of things is not important. What's important is what people believe

I'm wearing a pair of high boots, a red turtleneck sweater, a sealskin coat from Groenlandia, and a skirt from Scottish Corner. I've learned that it's always easier to explain things if you're nicely dressed.

Tell us, they'll say to me. So we will understand and be able to resolve things. They'll be mistaken. It's only the things you don't understand that you can resolve. There will be no resolution.

like many elderly people, she has developed a selective sense of hearing. She ignores me and continues on her own track...

I sit there in total silence. It's always interesting to leave Europeans in silence. For them it's a vacuum in which the tension grows and converges toward the intolerable.

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When you are in the company of people who look down upon themselves as though they were animals, you too become like an animal. Or worse, because animals do not despise themselves.

Kinder haben keine Vorurteile, und die Urteile werden ihnen erst gemacht. Nicht von den Dichtern, sondern von denen, die scheinbar erfolgreich die Gegenwart besetzen.

Actually I think Art lies in both directions - the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing.

In a sense, the mentally deranged and feebleminded were my guardian angels, and when I hadn't seen any of them in a long time, the sight of an idiot gave me a sudden burst of health and strength.

It's intolerable that when someone is born into the world, he can't automatically come to consciousness.