Quotes about Perception
There is nothing harder to explain than humor.
— Milan Kundera
Because everyone applauds him as a nice, very cosmopolitan Scandinavian who's already forgotten all about the place he comes from.
— Milan Kundera
the idea of eternal return implies a perspective from which things appear [...] without the mitigating circumstances of their transitory nature
— Milan Kundera
If Olga had been a little more foolish, she would have found herself quite pretty. But since she was an intelligent girl, she considered herself much uglier than she really was, for she was actually neither ugly nor pretty
— Milan Kundera
Looked at from the outside, I haven't experienced anything. Looked at from the outside! But I have a feeling that my experience inside is worth writing about and could be interesting to everybody.
— Milan Kundera
Is heaviness truly deplorable and lightness splendid?
— Milan Kundera
Metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.
— Milan Kundera
The love of God is no human projection, but the wrath of God is. In fact, what we call the wrath of God is really the love of God experienced by a fool.
— Peter Kreeft
The idea that you're hard to love is ludicrous.
— Rainbow Rowell
If you want a person's faults, go to those who love him. They will not tell you, but they know.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Like an image in a dream the world is troubled by love, hatred, and other poisons. So long as the dream lasts, the image appears to be real; but on awaking it vanishes.
— Samuel Johnson
We tap our toes to chaste love songs about the silvery moon without recognizing them as hymns to copulation.
— Barbara Kingsolver