Quotes About Perception

after a few centuries, the new pharaohs saw our kind as a threat instead of an asset. Too many of us existed. Had we wanted to, we could have challenged the pharaoh's armies. Pharaoh Mentuhotep the Second changed our name to the Setites, followers of the god Set, god of chaos, mischief, and evil.

Take Landon McKellips. He always plays the part of a womanizing playboy, but for all I know, he's completely different from that in real life.' 'No,' Slade said. 'He's actually like that.

Vision is also a fickle creature. You can see an object a hundred times, a thousand times, and it remains unchanged. Then in one swift second you realize it has been changing all along and your eyes hid it from you. Savannah

I can only speak from my own personal experience, being behind the camera and in front of it, but every magazine cover you see is completely airbrushed.

luck is not a thing that happens to you. Luck is everything that happens to you. The good, the bad, the in-between. And luck is what you make happen. Luck is how you see the events of your life and how you respond to them" -Aunt Jenny

There is no such thing as pure relativism. Anything is seen from the eye of the viewer, from one of many angles or frames of reference. The fact that truth may be relative should not lead to the judgment that all values are on the same scale.

No matter how dark the room gets I can always see. It looks emptier when I put the lights on so I don't do it if I can help it. Brightness disagrees with me: it hurts my eyes, wastes electricity and encourages moths, all sorts of things. I sit in the dark for a number of reasons.

I already read everything. I read poems and plays and novels and newspapers and comic books and magazines. I read tins in supermarkets and leaflets that come through the door, unsolicited mail. None of it lasts long and it doesn't give me answers. Reading too fast is not soothing.

There are split seconds in the morning between waking and sleep when you know nothing. Not just things missing like where or who you are, but nothing. The fact of being alive has no substance. No awareness of skin and bone, the trap inside the skull. For these split seconds you hover in the sky like Icarus. Then you remember

It's just that I'm happy now, and I guess that's how we judge a place, isn't it? Not for what it is, but for what we are when we live there.

Even the ones you don't like, you like better in Paris.

Both your friend and your enemy think you will never die. Irish proverb

You're a photographer, for Pete's sake. You need a photo of yourself front and center." "Well, yes, but..." A deep sigh followed on my end. How could I explain that I hated photos of myself?

Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.

picture flash into my mind. I could just see Aunt

So remember those who win the game Lose the love they sought to gain In debitures of quality and dubious integrity Their small-town eyes will gape at you In dull surprise when payment due Exceeds accounts received at seventeen

Tomorrow never happens. It's all the same fucking day, man.

Many admire, few know

I had asked Hunter once, when he was in a rare calm mood, 'Do you know when you're about to change? Are you aware of it?' Hunter said, 'Sandy, do you know what it's like? I'm just standing here, and I have a sense that something is about to happen. And then I start to turn my head, and it's here. The monster's here.

My personal mindblower was "Desolation Row," but the song that cut the deepest was "Like a Rolling Stone." The song was about discovering what was actually going on around you, realizing that life isn't all that you've been told it is.

LED ZEPPELIN HATED Rolling Stone, and me in particular.

Sure one could argue the naturalist's case that the mind experiences an external reality in which it participates. But how can this account really satisfy us, Olga? One could equally well argue that all experiences is highly subjective, that the only thing we really have is the image, the smell, the taste, and all of our assertions about the universe are constructions of the human mind.

Our propositions are true if they have the same structure as the world. Truth is a correspondence through structure.

An illusion threatens no one with harm. Neither can it be dispelled by armed force.