perception Quotes

To contemplate is to look at shadows.

Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night.

To think of shadows is a serious thing.

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

It is indeed a matter of great difficulty to discover, and effectually to distinguish, the true motions of particular bodies from the apparent because the parts of that immovable space, in which those motions are performed, do by no means come under the observation of our senses.

As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

Resistance is usually ascribed to bodies at rest, and impulse to those in motion, but motion and rest, as commonly conceived, are only relatively distinguished; nor are those bodies always truly at rest, which commonly are taken to be so.