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Quotes About Perception

What we see in this world is a gross abnormality. The human consciousness fails to perceive the very simple, divine nature of every atom in every moment.
~ Frederick Lenz
There's something in everyone only they know.
~ Ben Harper
You look at someone long enough, you discover their humanity.
~ Jack Nicholson
The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here (pointing to himself) and you are out there.
~ James H. Austin
Lies are essential to humanity.
~ Marcel Proust
Most of humanity, he said, have eyes that are so caked shut with the dust of deception they will never see the truth, no matter who tries to help them.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
If you stare at someone long enough, you start to see their humanity.
~ Mark Andrus
The clock is a conspiracy & a crime against humanity and I would not own one except I miss appointments without it.
~ Brian Andreas
One can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity.
~ C. S. Lewis
Oh. I see. People don't want to see what can't possibly exist.
~ Terry Pratchett, Mort
Thinking is the most overrated human activity.
~ Wendell Berry
Not even the Washington Post understands humanity.
~ Rush Limbaugh
all to no end save beauty the eternal-- So in detail they, the crowd, are beautiful
~ William Carlos Williams
There are a lot of human beings out there who are very hostile towards anything that rocks their perceptual boat.
~ Frederick Lenz
Half of humanity has been accepting the inner world but denying the outer world.
~ Rajneesh
All humanity could share a common insanity and be immersed in a common illusion while living in a common chaos. That can't be disproved, but we have no choice but to follow our senses.
~ Isaac Asimov
At the core of everything that is hurtful to humanity is a lack of consciousness.
~ Russell Simmons
that was humanity's problem right there. they are brain damaged from the early sun
~ Kim Harrison
Yes, Garnett Grey was an Architect. Were a psychoanalyst to approach him from behind, tap his shoulder, and say 'Humanity,' Garrett'd spin and respond, without hesitation, 'Solvable'.
~ Chip Kidd
In Garden Party or 40 Days and 40 Nights, I played characters who people dont necessarily like; I just find some humanity in them.
~ Vinessa Shaw
They told me I was everything. 'Tis a lie, I am not ague-proof.
~ William Shakespeare
People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
..Liberals see racism where it doesn't exist, fabricate it when they can't find it and ignore it within their own ranks.
~ Michelle Malkin
That's the trouble with good writers. Only the bad ones make you want to do the human thing and look away.
~ Nick Hornby