Quotes About Perception

E' caratteristico degli animi indeboliti vedere tutte le cose attraverso un velo: l'anima si crea da sè i suoi orizzonti, ed è lei che vi crea un cielo tempestoso

It seemed that the media pretty much controlled how the average person perceived the situation. We had little respect for journalists. Throughout my career, reporters always seemed to invent what they did not know and misinterpret what they saw.

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

Ideologen sind Leute, die glauben, dass die Menschheit besser sei als der Mensch.

If we are not careful, this false culture can dull our senses and lull us into a kind of trance, and we begin to exist in a nether world of attractive lies and half-truths.

A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.

I love you so much I'll never be able to tell you; I'm frightened to tell you. I can always feel your heart. Dance tunes are always right: I love you body and soul: —and I suppose body means that I want to touch you and be in bed with you, and i suppose soul means that i can hear you and see you and love you in every single, single thing in the whole world asleep or awake

Why do men think you can pick love up and re-light it like a candle? Women know when love is over.

Friend, my enemy, I call you out. You, you, you there with a bad thorn in your side. You there, my friend, with a winning air. Who pawned the lie on me when he looked brassly at my shyest secret. With my whole heart under your hammer. That though I loved him for his faults as much as for his good. My friend were an enemy upon stilts with his head in a cunning cloud. -Dylan Thomas

i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens; only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)

who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you

nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility

I don't know what it is about you that closes and opens; only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all the roses. Nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands.

To know is to possess, & any fact is possessed by everyone who knows it, whereas those who feel the truth are possessed, not possessors.

your slightest look easily will unclose me though i have closed myself as fingers, you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens (touching skilfully,mysteriously)her first rose ... (i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses) nobody,not even the rain,has such small hands

If our perception of God's character is distorted due to our own experiences of life's disappointments and our own histories of trauma, then having an all-seeing and always-present God could be stifling and produce fear instead of love and trust.

Sometimes we fail to enjoy living in an Immanuel reality due to a distorted per 9 ception of God's character.

I am led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction: there is only narrative.

Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader---not the fact it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.

Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader – not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.

My face is something between groteque and beautiful, Salai. It is something far less interesting; it is plain.

It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth.

l(a le af fa ll s)o ne li ne ss

Now the ears of my ears are awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened.