Quotes about Perception
A man may write himself out of reputation when nobody else can do it.
— Thomas Paine
And unless one decorates one's house for oneself alone, best leave it bare, for other people are all wall-eyed.
— DH Lawrence
I have never seen anything like it: two little discs of glass suspended in front of his eyes in loops of wire. Is he blind?
— JM Coetzee
The person who sees the difficulties so clearly that he does not discern the possibilities cannot inspire a vision in others.
— J. Oswald Sanders
If only we could eat our sunsets, I say, we would all be full.
— JM Coetzee
And anyway, I suspect he secretly liked it when a woman was cold and distant
— JM Coetzee
They do us honor by seeing gods in us, and we respond by treating them like things.
— JM Coetzee
Does it surprise you as much as it does me, this correspondence between things as they are and the pictures we have of them in our minds?
— JM Coetzee
Pain is nothing, just a warning signal from the body to the brain. Pain is no more the real thing than an X-ray photograph is the real thing. Biut of course he is wrong.
— JM Coetzee
we also first beheld Unveiled the summit of Mont Blanc, and grieved To have a soulless image on the eye That had usurped upon a living thought That never more could be.
— JM Coetzee
The world is more various than we ever give it credit for.
— JM Coetzee
It always puzzled him, when he was a child, that a woman who wrote books for a living should be so bad at telling bedtime stories.
— JM Coetzee