Quotes about Perception

What the soul cries out for is the resurrection of the senses. Even in this life, matter would be nothing to us if it were not the source of sensations.

The story does what no theorem can quite do. It may not be "like real life" in the superficial sense: but it sets before us an image of what reality may well be like at some more central region.

It seems to me probable that of all our economic life the element on which we are inclined to place too low an estimate is advertising.

The worst evils of life are those which do not exist except in our imagination.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree that we do -- namely, a feeling of almost childish injury and resentment unless the world as a whole recognizes how innocent we are of anything but the most generous and harmless intentions.

Perhaps the most essential thing for a continuing education is to develop the capacity to know what you see and to understand what it means. Many people seem to go through life without seeing.

Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.

Countless things in our daily lives can awaken the almost constant state of wonder we knew as children. But sometimes to see them we must look through a different set of eyes.

I think that when people hear the president [George W. Bush] speak, frankly, they think he's really stupid. But what people don't realize is that there's a genius behind that stupidity, and that genius is Harlan McCraney.

Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.

Time is not composed of indivisible nows any more than any other magnitude is composed of indivisibles.