Quotes about Perception

A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking.

You would have imagined her at one moment a maniac, at another a queen.

It all seemed to him to have disappeared as if behind a curtain at a theater. There are such curtains that drop in life. God is moving on to the next act.

God is behind everything, but everything hides God. Things are black, creatures are opaque. To love a being is to render that being transparent.

A phenomenon often seen. A sceptic adhering to a believer; that is as simple as the law of the complementary colours. What we lack attracts us. Nobody loves the light like the blind man...

That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience.

Ah! There you are! he exclaimed, looking at Jean Valjean. I'm so glad to see you. Well, but how is this? I gave you the candlesticks too, which are of silver like the rest, and for which you can certainly get two hundred francs. Why did you not carry them away with your forks and spoons?

We say and exclaim within ourselves without breaking silence, in a tumult where everything speaks except our mouths. The realities of the soul are none the less real for being invisible and impalpable.

Not seeing people allows you to think of them as perfect in all kinds of ways.

I didn't believe it could be so monstrous. It's wrong to be so absorbed in divine law as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men tough that unknown thing?

For the rest, he was the same to all men, the fashionable world and the ordinary people. He judged nothing in haste, or without taking account of the cirumstances. He said, 'Let me see how the fault arose.

Clearly, he had his own strange way of judging things. I suspect he acquired it from the Gospels.