Perception Quotes

"To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend" "The road uphill and the road downhill are one and the same" "Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one." "What we see is not what we see but what we are." "There is no language without deceit" "In the eyes of mourning the land of dreams begins." "Life is whatever we make of it. The traveler is the journey. What we see isn't what we see but what we are." "No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly " "He who has not early sown in his mind the seeds of truth will hear many things that will seem true but are false and will thereby incur grave damage." "I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen" "What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness" "The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are" "People are bloody ignorant apes." "Beauty is worse than wine; it intoxicates both the holder and beholder" "The work of memory collapses time"