Quotes About Perception

Truth has not special time of its own. Its hour is now -- always and indeed then most truly when it seems unsuitable to actual circumstances.

As we acquire knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while the pessimist sees only the red stoplight. The truly wise person is colorblind.

passes he stands for a moment close to us, as though illumined by a flash of lightning. Then we see him as he really is. After

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.

Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought.

Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different

Science is to see what everyone else has seen but think what no one else has thought.

I don't have a philosophy: I have senses... If I talk about Nature, it's not because I know what it is, But because I love it, and that's why I love it, Because when you love you never know what you love, Or why you love, or what love is. Loving is eternal innocence, And the only innocence is not thinking.

I'm one of my sensations.

It's stranger than every strangeness And the dreams of all the poets And the thoughts of all the philosophers, That things are really what they seem to be And there's nothing to understand.

Even so, I'm somebody. I'm the Discoverer of Nature. I'm the Argonaut of true sensations. I bring a new Universe to the Universe Because I bring the Universe to itself.

I'm glad I see with my eyes and not the pages I've read.

Things don't have significance: they only have existence. Things are the only hidden meaning of things.

Night doesn't fall for my eyes But my idea of the night is that it falls for my eyes. Beyond my thinking and having any thoughts The night falls concretely And the shining of stars exists like it had weight.

Pensar incomoda como andar à chuva Quando o vento cresce e parece que chove mais.

I don't always feel what I know I should feel. My thought crosses the river I swim very slowly Because the suit men made it wear weighs it down.

I don't know what understanding myself is. I don't look inside. I don't believe I exist behind myself.

Everything's different from us. That's why everything exists.

the world wasn't made for us to think about it (to think is to have eyes that aren't well) but to look at it and be in agreement.

What does this think about that? Nothing thinks about anything. Does the earth have consciousness of its stones and plants? If it did, it would be people. . . Why am I worrying about this? If I think about these things, I'll stop seeing trees and plants And stop seeing the Earth For only seeing my thoughts... I'll get unhappy and stay in the dark. And so, without thinking, I have the Earth and the Sky.

A row of trees far away, there on the hillside. But what is it, a row of trees? It's just trees. Row and the plural trees aren't things, they're names.

If science wants to be truthful, What science is more truthful than the science of things without science? I close my eyes and the hard earth where I'm lying Has a reality so real even my back feels it. I don't need reason — I have shoulderblades.