184 quotes found
“Just as in the body, eye and ear develop as organs of perception, as senses for bodily processes, so does a man develop in himself soul and spiritual organs of perception through which the soul and...”
“The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.”
“An ordinary mirror is silvered at the back but the window of the night train has darkness behind the glass. My face and the faces of other travellers were now mirrored on this darkness in a success...”
“So, sensation and judgment have together lost their apparent clearness: we have observed that they were clear only as long as the prejudice in favour of the world was maintained. As soon as one tri...”
“There are many realities. There are many versions of what may appearobvious. Whatever appears as the unshakeable truth, its exact oppositemay also be true in another context. After all, one's reali...”
“We both know that, my friend, but a man's perception soon becomes his reality.”
“Why does truth carry such a dreadful face? Why does subjugation carry such a happy mask? It becomes sad when people understand that they can lead a better life as long as they bow their heads, igno...”
“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”
“The significance of the dwelling is in the dweller.”
“The barren branches may appear inelegant: They are, to the cook, the means to make his fire.”
“W jakim sensie takie osoby jak ona, te, ktre wadaj pirem, bywaj niebezpieczne. Narzuca si od razu podejrzenie faszu - e taka osoba nie jest sob, tylko okiem, ktre bezustannie patrzy, a to, co widzi...”
“Self-realization is largely a matter of achieving a persons formative personality definition. People whom lack self-realization oftentimes fail to integrate their desired personality traits into al...”
“It's just that you're about to do something out of the ordinary. And after you do something like that, the everyday look of things might seem to change a little. Things may look different to you th...”
“...What happens is of little significance compared with the stories we tell ourselves about what happens. Events matter little, only stories of events affect us.”
“Sometimes when you're upset it's so easy to forget what's real and go for what makes you feel better. (131)”
“Perception and reality are two different things.”
“The world' is man's experience as it appears to, and is moulded by, his ego. It is that less abundant life, which is lived according to the dictates of the insulated self. It is nature denatured by...”
“Mostly you are what they think you are.”
“According to this model, human beings are, at least in one aspect, sensation-receiving machines; and although our receptory apparatus is competent to select and organize outward stimuli within the ...”
“We accept the reality of the world in which we are presented.”
