Quotes about Perception
We have been endowed with spiritual senses so that we can feel and enjoy God's presence.
— Sadhu Sundar Singh
Never judge a philosophy by its abuse
— St. Augustine
Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
— St. Augustine
God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed.
— St. Augustine
What then is time? Provided that no one asks me, I know. If I want to explain it to an inquirer, I do not know.
— St. Augustine
Unless you believe, you will not understand.
— St. Augustine
Flowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept.
— Francis de Sales
Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
— Saint Jerome
Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
The science of mathematics treats its object as though it were something abstracted mentally, whereas it is not abstract in reality.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
It is not our body which feels, not our mind which thinks, but we, as single human beings, who both feel and think.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
If by Godot I had meant God I would have said God, and not Godot.
— Samuel Beckett