Quotes About Perception

There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.

Et pour nous, en voyant des choses dans lesquelles, selon certains sens, nous ne remarquons point de limites, nous n'assurerons pas pour cela qu'elles soient infinies, mais nous les estimerons seulement indéfinies

It's funny, I've decided 'Hallelujah' is a kind of Rorschach test for people, because everyone has a different reaction to it and to what I'm doing. I just sang it, and whatever came out was just natural and spontaneous and maybe that's the best thing, because there's a kind of enigma, both in the meaning of the words and the way Leonard Cohen said them, that catches people's attention.

Children and geniuses know that there is no bridge, only the water that lets itself be crossed.

Dans nos ténèbres, il n'y a pas une place pour la Beauté. Toute la place est pour la Beauté.

The poet advises: 'Read me. Read me again.' He does not always come away unscathed from his page, but like the poor, he knows how to make use of an olive's eternity.

Nous sommes dans l'inconcevable, mais avec des repères éblouissants.

In the darkness of our lives, there is not one place for Beauty. The whole place is for Beauty.

there is no absence that cannot be replaced

Who would dare to say that what we have destroyed was worth a hundred times more than what we had dreamt and ceaselessly transfigured in murmuring to the ruins?

Les mots qui vont surgir savent de nous ce que nous ignorons d'eux.

Est-ce la porte de notre fin obscure, demandais-tu ? Non. Nous sommes dans l'inconcevable, mais avec des repères éblouissants.

Si l'homme parfois ne fermait pas souverainement les yeux, il finirait par ne plus voir ce qui vaut d'être regardé.

La poésie est de toutes les eaux claires celle qui s'attarde le moins aux reflets de ses ponts

The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.

I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.

The distance between Don Quixote and the petty bourgeois victim of advertising is not so great as romanticism would have us believe.

The more one approaches madness, the more one equally approaches the truth, and if one does not fall into the former, one must end up necessarily in the latter.

When Jesus says something that seems banal, it is necessary to be wary.

Modern man, instead of attempting to raise himself to truth, seeks to drag truth down to his own level.

il arrive malheureusement parfois que ceux qui croient combattre le diable, quelque idée qu'ils s'en fassent d'ailleurs, se trouvent ainsi tout simplement, sans s'en douter le moins du monde, transformés en ses meilleurs serviteurs !

Shuf shughlek, yâ khawaga!

for there are things for which a symbolical mode of expression properly so called is the only one possible, and which will consequently never be understood by those for whom symbolism is a dead letter.

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