There are many realities. There are many versions of what may appearobvious. Whatever appears as the unshakeable truth, its exact oppositemay also be true in another context. After all, one’s reality is butperception, viewed through...

I’m a human being and I’ve got thoughts and secrets and bloody life inside me that he doesn’t know is there, and he’ll never know what’s there because he’s stupid. I suppose you’ll laugh at...

People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the world lasts.

Christ delves far beyond the means of superficiality, not simply because of his immaculate love, but also because he considers the distinct cases of each individual rather than withholding a broadened perception by use of...

Too often, it is only love that makes us engaged enough, alert enough, alive enough to see

Your self-image tells about what you think about yourself and how you appear to yourself in your own consciousness. Self-image is the picture of yourself carried in your own mind. That picture can scare you...

Secularity is a way of being dependent on the responses of our milieu. The secular or false self is the self which is fabricated, as Thomas Merton says, by social compulsions. ‘Compulsive’ is indeed the...

Reality is how you look at it

People who want to climb mountains just like taking metaphors for real. So when I say I could murder for a mangosteen, I hope you don’t think I’m going to go out and do that.

Yet if women are so flighty, fickle, changeable, susceptible, and inconstant (as some clerks would have us believe), why is it that their suitors have to resort to such trickery to have their way with...

Old age. All the facial detail is visible; all the traces life has left there are to be seen. The face is furrowed, wrinkled, sagging, ravaged by time. But the eyes are bright and, if...

I find that there are a lot of objects and subjects within the world today. There’s so much going on, that it seems like reality itself is trying hide something. Not only do we have...

Unfortunately, our minds are our greatest assets, and our biggest flaws.

You could try making sense out of the universe, but you were too small and the parts you needed to see were too large or even smaller.

Why would you want to appear as one thing and be another? If you are a warrior then you are a warrior and if you are not a warrior then you are not a warrior....

The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole.

Grey has no agenda. . . . Grey has the ability, that no other colour has, to make the invisible visible.

…human beings have a distorted view of risk. They don’t see the whole picture. Our perceptions are twisted by stories in the media, by films, by our own personalities and experiences. So, despite the unlikely...

We all see only that which we are trained to see.

Be like the flower, content with its nature.

Perception was easily accomplished, required little effort, and it never had to stand the test of reality.

If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I’m not frightened by anyone’s perception of me.

We see people and things not as they are, but as we are.

Visual impressions are greatly intensified and the eye recovers some of the perceptual innocence of childhood, when the sensum was not immediately and automatically subordinated to the concept. Interest in space is diminished and interest...

How good something is should never be determined by its cost, designer, origin, or its perceived value by others.

As humans, reality for us is largely based on other people’s perceptions. If there’s 20 bodies in your crawl space but you haven’t been caught yet, you tell yourself you’re still a birthday clown, and...

When you no longer perceive the world as hostile, there is no more fear, and when there is no more fear, you think, speak and act differently.

All humans are alike and all humans are equal. It is just the perception of the eye that sees any different.

With growing disbelief, Jess yet again felt herself slipping into the gap – that gap of perception between what is really happening to a person and what others think is happening.

In every story of solipsism, there is always a conspiracy. Why? Because there is always a background involved in every perception.

We do not see things as they are, nor do we even see them as we are, but only as we believe our story to have been.

Internal mental experience is not the product of a photographic process. Internal reality is in fact constructed by the brain as it interacts with the environment in the present, in the context of its past...

Each of us sees things not as they are but as we are.

The dial of the clock wears out unevenly; Most worn Is the area round eight. As it is stared at with abrasive glancesunfailingly twice a day, It is weathered away. On the other side The...

People often find comfort in ignorance of illusions, but rarely find solace in the truth of reality.

Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness and Light, Solidity and Color, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.

The deepness of your mind produces the thickness of your thoughts.

A metaphor is not an ornament. It is an organ of perception. Through metaphors, we see the world as one thing or another.

It’s amusing to me that we refer to people who live in their heads as detached, disturbed, or mad, when reality for anyone is actually a matter of the individual’s state of mind. The mad...

Perception is subjective.

If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is – infinite.

Life: It is better not to wrap philosophy around such an inconceivable evolving beautiful mystery. If based on perception, alone; whatever the conclusion – it is still guessing.

After all, is it not the way we humans shape the universe, shape time itself? Do we not take the raw stuff of chaos and impose a beginning, middle, and end on it, like the...

Our perception of space-time can be thought of in terms of event coordinates relative to our current state of consciousness.

In pale moonlight / the wisteria’s scent / comes from far away.

As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.

I’m not satirical in a traditional way. What I do is more about creating caricatures and cartoons. I am commentating on the nature of how we live through photography, and how you can twist an...

Tobias took the photograph. At least, that’s what I saw. Most likely I still had the photograph in my hand, but I couldn’t feel it there, now I perceived Tobias holding it. It’s strange, the...

The flawlessly beautiful were flawlessy happy, weren’t they? To Kristy this had always seemed self-evident. Tonight, however, the alcohol made her wonder if envy hadn’t blinded her. Perhaps to be flawless was another kind of...

You can never make someone like something they don’t like, but you can always help them to better understand it.