Perception Quotes

"I was afraid of looking into the people's faces, their eyes were so sharp and burning. Their glances were unlike the glances of ordinary people" "Don't believe everything you hear: Real eyes, Realize, Real lies" "An illusion shared by everyone becomes a reality" "Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation" "First impressions are always unreliable" "There is no way out of the imagined order. When we break down our prison walls and run towards freedom, we are in fact running into the more spacious exercise yard of a bigger prison" "A dream that is not understood remains a mere occurrence; understood, it becomes a living experience" "Beauty is no quality in things themselves. It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them" "Truth is disputable, not taste. What exists in the nature of things is the standard of our judgement; what each man feels within himself is the standard of sentiment" "Reality is always neutral, it just is." "Half the people you know are below average." "Consciousness is an effect not a cause." "Our self-conception largely consists of how we see others seeing us." "You cannot directly perceive sunlight; you can only perceive its reflections and refractions." "Free will is like love: it is real, it matters, it can be misunderstood." "The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it." "Words, mademoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas." "Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theater" "You write in order to change the world ... if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it." "When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination"