Quotes About Perception

Demuestre que usted es un autor «inteligente»; en esa forma nadie sabrá que es inteligente de verdad, cosa peligrosísima. Téngalo en cuenta: muchas personas leen solamente los títulos. Después compran la obra y la archivan en sus bibliotecas per sécula. Si no se esmera, perderá el treinta y cinco por ciento de los lectores.

Lo que ocurre es que la gente no tolera el humor, lo nuevo y lo grande. Es preciso estar dotado de grandeza para no meter al artista creador dentro de la gran bolsa de los ruidos.

Es bueno defender las cosas que se sienten, pero para hay que sentirlas y para eso hace falta algo más.

Readers, censors know, are defined by the books they read.

Things that are understood are not scandalized. Shock - scandal is basically fear. The scandal is, after all, the fear of losing one's personality. In short, the shocked person is uncertain, hence a conformist.

Si accorse che poteva ormai guardarla con freddezza e oggettività, con sguardo sgombro di sentimento. Prima, quando l'amava ancora, la contemplava senza veramente vederla; adesso la vedeva, come si vede un oggetto qualsiasi, senza contemplarla. (Piccola e gelosa)

Herkes kendi cennetini ba?kas?n?n cehennemine koyar.

And we all know love is a glass which makes even a monster appear fascinating.

What was the use of seeing things clearly if the only thing clarity brought was a new and deeper darkness?

Când ai de gând s? ataci, trebuie s?-l faci pe duÈ™manul t?u s? cread? c? ai mai puÈ›ine forÈ›e decât ai în realitate, dar când te aperi trebuie s?-l faci s? cread? c? ai mai multe. Asta e regula, deÈ™i uneori succesul vine când încalci regula...

Traté de imaginar que había hombres que dejaban transcurrir su vida —su única vida— encerrados entre los muros de una casa y las estrechas calles de una ciudad sin ver jamás ponerse el Sol sobre la raya azul del mar y me dije que debía existir un infierno especial para los que, incapaces de ver lo que Dios creó, permanecen ciegos y sordos ante la inmensa maravilla de la naturaleza

We come to realize that the universe mirrors back to us perfectly our beliefs, our intentions, our sincerity. What is is the product of the map of reality you carry inside you. If you want to change your experience, you need to change the map.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world. — Buddha

hippocampus damage on a national scale can be measured by the number of guns owned by a country's citizens. According to The Washington Post, the U.S. has the highest per capita gun ownership in the world—nearly 90 guns for every 100 people—and the highest rate of gun-related murders in the developed world.4 The hippocampus senses danger lurking behind every tree.

The Spanish chroniclers in Peru wrote that when the conquistador Pizarro met the Inka ruler Atahualpa, he handed him the Bible, explaining to him that this was the word of God. The Inka brought the volume to his ear, listened carefully die a few moments, then threw the holy book to the ground, exclaiming, "What kind of god is this that does not speak?

What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things.

December is thirteen months long, July's one afternoon.

As long as you read this poem I will be writing it.

Nobody believes anything that's put in a poem.

The Masks Of Love I come in from a walk With you And they ask me If it is raining. I didn't notice But I'll have to give them The right answer Or they'll think I'm crazy.

Non mi sconvolge che metta su famiglia della gente platealmente handicappata, minorata e deficiente, mi turba che la metta su della gente apparentemente sana.

The good life of any river may depend on the perception of its music; and the preservation of some music to perceive.

We grieve only for what we know.

The boundary between tame and wild exists only in the imperfections of the human mind.