Quotes about Perception

Whoever looks from inside knows that everything is new.

The psyche's attachment to the brain, i.e., its space-time limitation, is no longer as self-evident and incontrovertible as we have hitherto been led to believe. … It is not only permissible to doubt the absolute validity of space-time perception; it is, in view of the available facts, even imperative to do so.

In this way he slips imperceptibly into a purely conceptual world where the products of his conscious activity progressively take the place of reality.

Man can live the most amazing things if they make sense to him. But the difficulty is to create that sense.

In order to perceive this the reader should endeavor to make clear to himself how intimate a connection there exists between the Holy Spirit and Eschatology.

I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow's feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see me coming out strong.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

The 100% American is 99% an idiot.

You see things as they are and ask, 'Why' I dream things as they never were and ask, 'Why not'

Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.