It would be as useless to perceive how things ‘actually look’ as it would be to watch the random dots on untuned television screens.
Perception Quotes
Generally, about all perception, we can say that 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.
We always did feel the same, We just saw it from a different point of view. (Robert Zimmerman)
Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
The professional/managerial class has always overestimated its own contribution to the collective endeavor, and I’m afraid the cyber-era has exacerbated this form of vanity… In fact, it takes a whole lot of lifting, bending, scrubbing, carting, sorting, and caring to make the world as we know it happen every day. And are people forgetting that […]
No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.
People only see what they are prepared to see.
We do not see the lens through which we look.
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
One can only see what one observes, and one observes only things which are already in the mind.
