Quotes about Perception

His manual of heaven and hell lay open before me, and I could perceive my nothingness in this scheme.

Piggy was calling him a kid. Another voice told him not to be a fool; and the darkness and desperate enterprise gave the night a kind of dentist's chair reality.

What's in a book is not what the author put into it, it's what the reader gets out of it.

The enemy is always in the mind.

Truth is terrific, reality is even better, but believability is the best of all

Life is the art of being well-deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.

Belief creates the actual fact.

Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.

Everyone knows what attention is. It is taking possession of the mind, in clear and vivid form, of one out of what seems several simultaneously possible objects or trains of thought. Focalization, concentration of consciousness are of its essence. It implies a withdrawal from some things in order to deal effectively with others.

Psychology is the science of mental life

Whatever is beyond this narrow rational consciousness we mistake for our only consciousness.