The clearsighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
Perception Quotes
‘Tis the perception of the beautiful, A fine extension of the faculties, Platonic, universal, wonderful, Drawn from the stars, and filtered through the skies, Without which life would be extremely dull.
For though we very truly hear that the kingdom of God will be filled with splendor, joy, happiness and glory, yet when these things are spoken of, they remain utterly remote from our perception, and as it were, wrapped in obscurities, until that day when he will reveal to us his glory, that we may […]
The chief mark of modern man has been that he has gone through the landscape with his eyes glued to a guidebook, and could actually deny in the one anything he could not find in the other… By a weird mesmerism, what people read has a sort of magic power over their sight. It lays […]
Veracity has nothing to do with violence, one way or the other. One historian may prefer to say, ‘The Emperor Nero set on foot several conspiracies against the life of Agrippina his mother, and expressed satisfaction when the final attempt was successful.’ Another may say, ‘The bloody and treacherous tyrant foully murdered his own mother, […]
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
Reality doesn’t bite, rather our perception of reality bites.
We all live under the same sky, but we don’t all have the same horizon.
All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor. It is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity in dissimilars.
