1,601 Quotes About Perception

If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.

You will die, and when you die, you will know a profound lack of it [dignity]. It's never dignified, always brutal. What's dignified about dying? It's never dignified. And in obscurity? Offensive. Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves. And it's fleeting and incredibly mercurial. And subjective. So fuck it.

Perception is blind to the knowledge that you cannot understand.

Even if things were the same, people's perception of them might have been very different back then. The darkness of night was probably deeper then, so the moon must have been that much bigger and brighter.

It takes discipline to turn illusion into reality.

There are times when the truth can only show you an illusion.

An angry woman is a bitch. An angry man is strong, whereas, a sad man or a fearful man is a wimp. A sad or fearful woman is frail.

We are who people think we are. The reality is irrelevant.

If you know something is an illusion, why pretend it is reality?