Perception Quotes

"What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness." "In order to be an object of desire, it is necessary to get some distance from oneself" "The final end of every human undertaking, whether in science, art, or religion, is the human realization of the identity between the knower and the known, the seer and the seen, the experiencer and the experienced." "The more you know, the more you see." "There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep." "Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes." "The universe is not obliged to make sense to you." "Everybody thinks we're so bad because of the violence but our lyrics are about speaking the truth" "I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead I lift my lids and all is born again " "I am afraid that if you look at a thing long enough it loses all of its meaning " "The light is the same as it always was" "I am aware that life is absurd. It’s just a contest between people enjoying their various symptoms." "The whole point of the psychedelic experience is to challenge the concept of who you are." "We are the bees of the invisible. We gather the honey of the visible and store it in the great golden hive of the invisible." "Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present. " "Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything." "To know is nothing at all to imagine is everything" "If everyone knew what others said about him there would not be four friends in the world" "There are only two kinds of men; the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous" "Fear is not a real thing. It is a product of thoughts you create."