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Perception Quotes

"Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets"
Jacques Derrida
"A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing"
Jorge Luis Borges
"We have confused the real and the extraordinary to the point where we no longer know which is which"
Jose Saramago
"People live their lives bound by what they accept as correct and true"
Jose Saramago
"Human words are like shadows, and shadows are incapable of explaining light and between shadow and light"
Jose Saramago
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes"
Marcel Proust
"Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were"
Marcel Proust
"One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done."
Marie Curie
"The tongue can conceal the truth, but the eyes never."
Mikhail Bulgakov
"The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you"
Neil deGrasse Tyson
"Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?"
Philip Roth
"Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument"
Primo Levi
"We suffer more often in imagination than in reality"
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"Once you label me you negate me."
Soren Kierkegaard
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