perception Quotes

The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.

Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hid and show what's hidden.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

People can drink with their eyes; I can eat with my nose.

Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.

A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.

Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.