Quotes About Perception

Art is the manipulation of someone else's imagination.

We are never either so fortunate or so misfortunate as we imagine.

What a mysterious faculty is that queen of the faculties!

What you call magic is nothing more than an act of the imagination fired by the senses, then given shape by the power of your aura.

What is reality but the dreamworld of a limited imagination.

(Stereotyping) is only for those without the imagination to see people as they are instead of being like someone else they understand.

To swear day and night by media slander will make one a bigger victim than the slandered. It doesn't take much to begin to fear a mere illusion of human badness.

Indeed, the human mind appeared to suffer from a crippling need to fabricate in the absence of concrete proof.

Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.

Imagination, that dost so abstract us That we are not aware, not even when A thousand trumpets sound about our ears!

I never had the financial means that the media said I had. I laugh when I hear the amounts, $400 million, $800 million. Where do they get this imagination?

The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.

Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination.

The imagination is to the effect as the shadow to the opaque body which causes the shadow.

Imagination is not to be divorced from the facts. It is a way of illuminating the facts.

Experience and imagination must enter into the very constitution of our thoughts involving concrete individuals.

Abortion is not an issue with the American people. It is a figment of your imagination if you think that this is an issue that is talked about a lot.

I have imagination, and nothing that is real is alien to me.

The magnificent cause of being, The imagination, the one reality In this imagined world.

Imagination might be scarier than reality ... but not by much.

Except for its worst inner-city slums, America is not the primitive capitalist jungle of European imagination, where human beings slink away like wounded animals to die in bloodstained holes.

It's a total failure of the Western imagination that the only enemy they can see is Adolph Hitler.

The instant trivial as it is is all we have unless-unless things the imagination feeds upon, the scent of the rose, startle us anew.

I suppose I am a born novelist, for the things I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things I remember.