1,601 Quotes About Perception

Reality is a changeless concept that only perception can mask.

Conscientious stupidity is a religion for most. Many will deny it, but it's those same people that find it easier to ignore the truth. This religion can only be followed by their humble ignorance. It's safe to assume, that this religion is an illusion of knowledge.

People enjoy the passion of delusions. However, the world is built on a basis that if you free yourself, you find yourself within another illusion. There is always a truth hidden within a truth. It is no different from illusions and deceptions of reality. The question then becomes -- how does one become truly free?

What smells good may not always taste good, I leaned this the day I tried to eat a scented candle.

I do think that our perception of reality is fragmentary, and in 20th-century literature, it’s totally normal to not describe reality as something whole and completely transportable and explicable. That’s been accepted in novels. But genre films always pretend that reality is transportable, which means that it is explicable.

People rely too much on their lifelong instincts. Their perception is divided by necessary obedience, which they themselves have become too weak to liberate themselves from. I'd let the Devil read me the bible, before I trusted the Words of God or the Mind of Man.

Some people like living in black and white worlds. Let them stay there. Appreciate all the colors you see in your world though.

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

It is Nature that causes all movement. Deluded by the ego, the fool harbors the perception that says "I did it".