All Quotes By Tag: Perceptions

“Often, we are not courageous enough to tell the truth because we fear societal prejudices and perceptions.”

“Close your eyes to see the light of your love. It is what is enlightening the whole world. You don’t see things with your eyes. You see them through your perceptions, emotions, and imaginations.”

“Poetry excites innate emotions and perceptions that let you create a new world where you have never visited and no one else can enter.”

“Your level of consciousness defines your perceptions, responses, and responsibilities.”

“When you bake your thoughts, ideas, perceptions, and imagination in an oven called the mind, you come up with a delicious cake that is your philosophy of the mind.”

“True intelligence is knowing that wisdom comes from perceptions and experiences.”

“We are happy when people/things conform and unhappy when they don’t. People and events don’t disappoint us, our models of reality do. It is my model of reality that determines my happiness or disappointments.”

“Causing any damage or harm to one party in order to help another party is not justice, and likewise, attacking all feminine conduct [in order to warn men away from individual women who are deceitful] is contrary to the truth, just as I will show you with a hypothetical case. Let us suppose they did this intending to draw fools away from foolishness. It would be as if I attacked fire — a very good and necessary element nevertheless — because some people burnt themselves, or water because someone drowned. The same can be said of all good things which can be used well or used badly. But one must not attack them if fools abuse them.”

“A piece of art comes to life, when we can feel, it is breathing, when it talks to us and starts raising questions. It may dispel biased perceptions; make us recognize ignored fragments and remember forsaken episodes of our life story. Art may sometimes even be nasty and disturbing, if we don’t want to consent to its philosophy or concept, but it might, in the end, perhaps reconcile us with ourselves. (“When is Art?”)”