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“We have grown to trust blindly in our senses of balance and reason, and I can see where the mind might fight wildly to preserve its own familiar stable patterns against all evidence that it was lea...”
“There was no style in nature.”
“We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, ...”
“What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.”
“All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.”
“There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.”
“One moment the world is as it is. The next, it is something entirely different. Something it has never been before.”
“The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.”
“A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.”
“That is certainly one way to look at the matter. There are others.”
“Surely you ain't weak.You just can't accept yourself as a strong person.”
“[she used to say that] each of us has a veil between ourselves and the rest of the world like a bride wears on her wedding dayexcept this kind of veil is invisible. we walk around happily with the...”
“You can see a rose both in two ways. First, through its beautiful petals. The other, through its thorns”
“The locus of the human mystery is perception of this world. From it proceeds every thought, every art.”
“Here's something else I'd like your opinion about," I said. "If he went back underground and sat down again in the same spot, wouldn't the sudden transition from the sunlight mean that his eyes wou...”
“You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.”
“What is seen by mind, is an environmental image that projected by public consciousness in vicinity.”
“With growing disbelief, Jess yet again felt herself slipping into the gap - that gap of perception between what is really happening to a person and what others think is happening.”
“Attending church does not necessarily mean living the principles taught in those meeting. You can be active in a church but inactive in its gospel.”
“To analyze or assess a person's failings or deficiencies,' he declared to himself, 'is useless, not because such blemishes are immovable, but because they affect the mass of beholders in diverse wa...”
