Quotes About Perception

What you see is what you see, but that is never everything. Sarajavo is Sarajevo whatever you see or don't see. America is America. The past and future exist without you. And what you don't know about me is still my life. What I don't know about you is still your life. Nothing at all depends on you seeing it or not seeing it. I mean, who are you? You don't have to see or know everything.

Let me tell you what the problem is, Brik. Even if you knew what you want to know, you would still know nothing. You ask questions, you want to know more, but no matter how much more I tell you, you will never know anything. That's the problem.

Don't you wonder sometimes," sang Bowie all the way to Kinshasa, "about sound and vision?

Only once did she say: "I love the way you think without thinking

One person's garbage is another person's commodity.

If Joshua had to put one sticker on his car (which he didn't have) it would be: Whatever is, is either in itself or in the other. Who on the street would ever understand what that meant?

her hot attire did not signify promiscuity—contrary to the consensual interpretation of the other male teachers—but a kind of nostalgia: this was what she used to wear when she was happy, when she used to live the normal

Minut može biti isto što i ceo život, ako se doživi usredsre?eno, ako se gleda pažljivo kako promi?u ku?e i prolaznici, ako se zna da se u?inilo ono što se želelo.

A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.

Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.

Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you -- you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.

It is this short circuit that constitutes the peak of comedy: not simply the fact that Big Jim erroneously sees a chicken when he looks at Charlie, but also the fact that, for all his error, he is somehow right-Charlie does look like a chicken.

it is not enough that we know how things really stand; in a certain sense, things themselves have to realize how they stand.

The thing (as one) no longer throws its shadow upon another thing; instead, it throws its shadow upon itself, thus becoming, at the same time, the thing and its shadow. When the sun is at its zenith, things are not simply exposed ("naked", as it were); they are, so to speak, dressed in their own shadows.

È una cosa che succede: le grandi amicizie e i grandi legami dell'adolescenza sono difficili da riannodare in seguito, anche tra fratello e sorella. Ci rimasero malissimo tutti e due, ognuno ebbe l'impressione che l'altro fosse cambiato e che ci fosse qualcosa che non andava.

Perché è così che ti frega, la vita. Ti piglia quando hai ancora l'anima addormentata e ti semina dentro un'imagine, o un odore, o un suono che poi non te lo togli più. E quella lì era la felicità. Lo sopri dopo, quando è roppo tardi. E già sei, per sempre, un esule: a migliaia di chilometri da quell'immagine, da quel suono, da quell'odore. Alla deriva.

There is nothing that can, in the dark become true

Quante volte avrebbe desiderato di vederla dinanzi viva e reale, piuttosto che averla sempre fissa nel pensiero, piuttosto che dover trovarsi, giorno e notte, in compagnia di quella gorma vana, terribile, impassibile!

Ma sarebbe ridicolo il dimostrar che uomini potevano veder cose che l'uomo non può non vedere: può bensì non volerci badare.

Il buon senso c'era, ma se ne stava nascosto per paura del senso comune.

Le suore si rallegravano a vicenda del cambiamento felice; lontane com'erano dall'immaginarne il vero motivo, e dal comprendere che quella nuova virtù non era altro che ipocresia aggiunta all'antiche magagne.

Alzandosi tutti, vedevano né più né meno che se fossero stati tutti con le piante in terra; ma tant'è, tutti s'alzavano.

Sometimes, however, a man can grasp this without being a great metaphysician, when he is still fresh to the problem; and it is only by discussing it, and hearing it discussed, that he becomes incapable of understanding it.