Quotes about Perception

Actually, he had always preferred the unreal to the real.

Her image of it came entirely from what she had heard. Or read. Or received unconsciously from distant ancestors. And yet it lived within her.

Not only have people stopped trying to be attractive when they are out among other people, but they are no longer even trying not to look ugly!

Franz could not accept that the fact that the glory of the Grand March was equal to the comic vanity of its marchers.

We live in two different dimensions, you and I.

Don't forget that not only was Socrates ugly but also that many famous women lovers did not distinguish themselves at all by their physical perfection. Aesthetic racism is almost always a sign of inexperience. Those who have not made their way far enough into the world of amorous delights judge women only by what can be seen. But those who really know women understand that the eye reveals only a minute fraction of what a woman can offer us

There is nothing harder to explain than humor.

Because everyone applauds him as a nice, very cosmopolitan Scandinavian who's already forgotten all about the place he comes from.

the idea of eternal return implies a perspective from which things appear [...] without the mitigating circumstances of their transitory nature

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

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.

Is heaviness truly deplorable and lightness splendid?