Quotes about Perception

There is no object so foul that intense light will not make beautiful. And the stimulus it affords to the sense, and a sort of infinitude which it hath, like space and time, make all matter gay. Even the corpse has its own beauty.

The world thus exists to the soul to satisfy the desire of beauty. This

Each is liable to panic, which is, exactly, the terror of ignorance surrendered to the imagination.

I become the transparent eyeball...

What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.

In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts.

There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all parts, that is, the poet.

Each moment of the year has its own beauty

Love is as much its demand as perception. Indeed, neither can be perfect without the other.

Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance. Right means straight; wrong means twisted. Spirit primarily means wind; transgression, the crossing of a line; supercilious, the raising of the eyebrow. We say the heart to express emotion, the head to denote thought; and thought and emotion are words borrowed from sensible things, and now appropriated to spiritual nature. Most

One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Speak what you think now in hard words and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.—'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.'—Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.