Quotes about Perception

The trouble with fiction, said John Rivers, is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood.

To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves.

The self is coming from a state of pure awareness from the state of being. All the rest that comes about in a outward manifesation of the physical world, including fluctuations which end up as thoughts and actions

He was a philosopher, if you know what that was.' 'A man who dreams of fewer things than there are in heaven and earth,' said the Savage promptly. 'Quite so…

Those who feel themselves despised do well to look despising.

Whenever the masses seized political power, then it was happiness rather than truth and beauty that mattered.

Was and will make me ill, I take a gram and only am.

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.

Things somehow seem more real and vivid when one can apply somebody else's ready-made phrase about them (...) you bring them out triumphantly, and feel you've clinched the argument with the mere magical sound of them. That's what comes of the higher education.

Nature, or anything that reminds me of nature, disturbs me; it is too large, too complicated, above all too utterly pointless and incomprehensible.

Unmentioned, what is can become as though it were not.