Quotes about Perception

We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.

Distress at losing an object can be as much a frustration at the intellectual mystery of the disappearance as about the loss itself.

It is according to how we are able to answer the question of what we do (normally the first enquiry we will have to field in any new acquaintance) that the quality of our reception is likely to be decided.

Art builds up self-knowledge, and is an excellent way of communicating the resulting fruit to other people.

A picture's beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.

The truth, in so far as a human being is able to attain such a thing, lies in a statement which it seems impossible to disprove. It is by finding out what something is not that one comes closest to understanding what it is.

If we accord importance to the kind of portraits which surround us, it is because we fashion our lives according to their example, accepting aspects of ourselves if they concur with what others mention of themselves.

What we see evidence for in others, we will attend to within, what others are silent about, we may stay blind to or experience only in shame.

How did we ever get to believe that faithfulness involved simply retaining past forms and thinking? With the Creator God as our Father, how did we ever become the socially conservative stiflers of innovation that we are so notoriously perceived to be?

If we are not careful, then, the culture rather than God actually gets to define reality.

For the most part, the people who are currently in Satan's kingdom don't realize where they really are, because it is a kingdom of darkness, and they can't "see" it. In contrast, the kingdom of God is the kingdom of light; therefore, those who are in His kingdom know where they are.

Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.