perception Quotes

The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

The eyes of some persons are large, others small, and others of a moderate size; the last-mentioned are the best. And some eyes are projecting, some deep-set, and some moderate, and those which are deep-set have the most acute vision in all animals; the middle position is a sign of the best disposition.

A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.