Quotes About Perception

The "end of a world" never is and never can be anything but the end of an illusion.

Le nom de « religiosité » ne conviendrait-il pas beaucoup mieux à un tel ensemble de vagues aspirations sentimentales, qu'une étrange illusion fait prendre pour de la « spiritualité » ?

il est curieux de voir à quelles extravagantes rêveries peut donner lieu une science aussi « positive » que veut l'être l'astronomie moderne.

The same can be said of the true science of num- bers, for the principial numbers, though they must be referred to as numbers by analogy, are situated relatively to our world at the pole opposite to that at which are situated the numbers of common arithmetic; the latter are the only numbers the moderns know, and on them they turn all their attention, thus taking the shadow for the reality, like the prisoners in Plato's cave.

assurément, des aveugles seraient tout aussi bien fondés à nier l'existence de la lumière et à en tirer prétexte pour se vanter d'être supérieurs aux hommes normaux !

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist

If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream.

Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see. There is an interest in that which is hidden and which the visible does not show us. This interest can take the form of a quite intense feeling, a sort of conflict, one might say, between the visible that is hidden and the visible that is present.

The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.

We are surrounded by curtains. We only perceive the world behind a curtain of semblance. At the same time, an object needs to be covered in order to be recognized at all.

Visible things can be invisible. However, our powers of thought grasp both the visible and the invisible – and I make use of painting to render thoughts visible.

What he imagines evokes nothing imaginary, it evokes the reality of the world that experience and reason treat in a confused manner.

Between words and objects one can create new relations and specify characteristics of language and objects generally ignored in everyday life.

We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world.

Everyday objects shriek aloud.

If one looks at a thing with the intention of trying to discover what it means, one ends up no longer seeing the thing itself, but of thinking of the question that is raised.

Vince replied: "If you meant that as a joke, I now have a better understanding of where you were coming from. (understanding) And, my understanding is that your idea of joking is to call someone out in front of other people." Mark shrugged and laughed uneasily.

Through the absence of what we think we have to have, we can experience the discovery of our wholeness

I wonder if you know at all what is happening in my heart, what a word. I suppose you don't. You've so many females, wife, sister, daughters, cousins, dog, in your life that you've probably confused me with them all.

The dishes that were meant to be hot were never quite as warm as those that were meant to be chilled.

altogether too much of life is mood. Aldo

The slowest-talking man I know tends to loom in elevator doors, in hallways, booths, and other narrow places.

in the end, everyone can understand themselves only. You are the only one to which you never have to explain what you mean. Everything else is misunderstanding.

De werkelijkheid bestaat pas, als je je er iets van aantrekt. Je moet de werkelijkheid de kans niet geven, te bestaan.