Quotes about Perception

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion.

I have often said that there was no cause for feeling disturbed at being misrepresented in the press. It would be only when they began to say things detrimental to me which were true that I should feel alarm.

Does everything always have to mean something else?" I ask before we get started. Who knew that literature was so tangled and complicated? "That is a wonderful lesson, Sang Ly. Remember it." "What was it again?" I ask, not certain to what she was referring. She repeats it for me. "In literature, everything means something.

Guys are like dogs: they never notice if you've changed your hair, but they can sense when there's another guy sniffing around their territory

One who looks outside, dreams. One who looks inside, awakens.

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.