Quotes About Perception

Beauty is found in anything that delights the senses, nourishes the soul, fires the imagination.

Where am I when I'm not in reality or in my imagination?

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

Embrace reality by imagination.

Justice is to be found only in the imagination.

Misery does not exist in reality but only in mere imagination.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Imagination is seeing with the eye of God.

If you cannot imagine with the mind's eye much more than you can see with the mortal eye, you have a very poor imagination indeed.

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

I mainly let my imagination be my reality. Fantasy is my reality.

Imagination is nothing more than sensory states. Learn to go beyond an idea by feeling its reality.

In your own bosom you bear your heaven and earth, And all you behold, though it appears without, It is within, in your imagination, Of which this world of mortality is but a shadow.

The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.

We do not posses imagination enough to sense what we are missing.

Memory belongs to the imagination. Human memory is not like a computer which records things; it is part of the imaginative process, on the same terms as invention.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

Every view, and every object I studied attentively, by viewing them again and again on every side, for I was anxious to make a lasting impression of it on my imagination.

The life of nations no less than that of men is lived largely in the imagination.

We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

The eternal gulf between being and idea can only be bridged by the rainbow of imagination.

The things I fear may all be imaginary, so what I fear most is my imagination.

Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.