Quotes About Perception

If you feel ugly you will experience shame. The two are bound together.

You believe lies about God. Guaranteed. You think he can't see all things; you think he doesn't care; you think that he reluctantly forgives; you think that he is far away; you think that he loves many people but not you. Don't assume that you know him. Read the Gospels.

Why do you think Adam and Eve were concerned about uncovered genitals, but not bare arms, legs, noses, or ears?

Who in your life is one step ahead of you in knowing people? What does that person do?

Why is it that when you lose something, it is always in the last place that you look for it? Because of course, once you remember, you always stop looking.

People say that things like this happen in slow motion, as though you suddenly become an astronaut in the antigravity chamber of your own life. This wasn't true for me. Things were speeding up instead, and I did my best to slow them down in my mind.

Even by the end of the last century, the average human being in a country such as ours saw as many images in a day as a Victorian inhaled in a lifetime.

the "old world" view separates data from emotional process and focuses leaders on the "talking heads" of others, while the "new world" view focuses leaders on the nature of their own presence.

those who lack self-definition, whether they are children, marriage partners, employees, clients, therapists, or supervisors, will always perceive those who are well-defined to be "headstrong.

Since Feeling is first who ever pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you...

For smart monkeys, we can, when the mood takes us, be exceedingly stupid.

we have to keep him in a state of enlightened deception.

The geometry! I think I can see it! Each quarter section is homeomorphic to a triangle!

Experience shows that in such undertakings, the imagination is alarmed not so much by realities as phantoms, which vanish before a courageous heart which can look them in the face with contempt

The enthusiastic, to those who are not, are always something of a trial.

Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.

Maybe taking ourselves for somebody else means that we cannot bear to see ourselves as we are.

I think anger and laughter are very close to each other, when you think about it.

Every ideology is contrary to human psychology.

Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.

Mother died today, or maybe it was yesterday.

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

History, as an entirety, could only exist in the eyes of an observer outside it and outside the world. History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.