1,601 Quotes About Perception

But perhaps it is always so, that men form their conceptions from fictitious, conventional types, and then—all the combinations made—they are tired of the fictitious figures and begin to invent more natural, true figures.

The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured'.

Though we may choose to view them symbolically, dreams are actually no more or less symbolic than everyday waking reality. When the images and events don't conform to our view of reality, we call them symbols. When they do, we call them facts.

Belief is made up of the same non-substance of which we ourselves are composed. The test of any belief system, then, is the degree to which this same light is permitted to shine through.

We have long laboured under an obtuse presupposition that the senses by which other living creatures perceive their world must to a great extent resemble our own; but in fact we are, by scientific invention, only now beginning to approach methods of perception that the whales have always owned as their birthright.

The belief that myths are somehow less true than the symbolic dream we call 'reality' may be the greatest myth of all.

People perceive the divine according to their own biases. That doesn’t make the experience any less real.

Half the ingratitude and complacency in the world down to how slowly and imperceptibly most good and bad things unfold.

There was no style in nature.