Quotes About Perception

Memory feeds imagination.

Opinion involves belief (for without belief in what we opine we cannot have an opinion), and in the brutes though we often find imagination we never find belief.

The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination.

We live in condensations of our imagination

Equilibrium is a figment of the human imagination.

He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird.

But sometimes what we call 'memory' and what we call 'imagination' are not so easily distinguished.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

It's essential for us to develop an imagination that is participatory. Art is the primary way in which this happens. It's the primary way in which we become what we see or hear.

Perfume opens endless horizons. It appeals both to the senses and to the imagination. Like an enchantment, it works on an instinctive level and at the same time is extremely subtle.

Imagination offers people consolation for what they cannot be, and humor for what they actually are.

If you get an image try to destroy it.

The human race is governed by its imagination.

For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.

Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.

All that you can imagine you already know.

The white imagination is sure something when it comes to blacks.

Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.

Things seemed to go back and forth between reality and imagination--except that it was all reality.

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.

The most loyal and faithful woman indulges her imagination in a hypothetical liaison whenever she dons a new street frock for the first time.

The desire to see and the desire to ratify what one has seen are desires at odds with one another, if only because they proceed from separate places in the imagination.

The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination.