Quotes About Perception

Intelligence is perhaps but a malady,-a beautiful malady; the oyster's pearl.

And there is neither beginning nor end, nor past nor future; there is only a present, at the same time static and ephemeral, multiple and absolute. It is the vital ocean in which we all share, according to our strength, our needs or our desires.

Man can no more see the world than a fish can see the river bank.

The greater part of a men who speak ill of women are speaking of a certain woman.

Pour les gens qui vous entourent, vous n'êtes jamais là, toujours en retard ou en avance d'une seconde sur leur temps.

La réalité du monde ne lui apparaissait pas solide.

Vous êtes bien? demanda Coban. Elle ne le regarda même pas. Elle savait qu'il savait.

Voler une ombre, dépouiller un souvenir, est-ce vraiment voler ?

Ils venaient de prendre conscience de l'immensité de leur ignorance.

Les formes paraissaient étranges parce qu'elles étaient inconnues.

I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.

I am thing that thinks: that is, a things that doubts,affirms, denies, understands a few things, is ignorant of many things, is willing, is unwilling, and also which imagines and has sensory perceptions.

Common sense is the best distributed commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

And what more am I? I look for aid to the imagination. [But how mistakenly!] I am not that assemblage of limbs we call the human body; I am not a subtle penetrating air distributed throughout all these members; I am not a wind, a fire, a vapor, a breath or anything at all that I can image. I am supposing all these things to be nothing. Yet I find, while so doing, that I am still assured that I am a something.

One should never judge anything unless it is known.

Of all things, good sense is the most fairly distributed: everyone thinks he is so well supplied with it that even those who are the hardest to satisfy in every other respect never desire more of it than they already have.

Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed; for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess.

This result could have been achieved either by his [God] endowing my intellect with a clear and distinct perception of everything about which I would ever deliberate, or simply by impressing the following rule so firmly upon my memory that I could never forget it: I should never judge anything that I do not clearly and distinctly understand.

Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?

I had become aware, as early as my college days, that no opinion, however absurd and incredible can be imagined, that has not been held by one of the philosophers.

The very desire to seek the truth often causes people, who do not know how it should be sought correctly, to make judgements about things that they do not perceive and in that way they make mistakes.

Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it that even those most difficult to please in all other matters never desire more of it than they already possess.

that we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.