Quotes about Perception

The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness cannot understand it

The problem with any philosophical consideration is that once you open a door in your mind, you can never close it. Once you learn something, you can never convince your mind that you didn't learn it. If you learn the world is round, you can never fit in with a world that thinks it's flat.

The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness.

It's not that I lead this oblivious life where I think I've got such a great personality that people want to spend time with me. If someone has a poster of you or asks for your autograph, clearly you can't take them out on a date. It's not that interesting if someone is just interested in you.

The absence of God in most spheres of life is perceived to be normal, and even Christians feel it as normal - which is why absorbing the culture all around us and its priorities is so dangerous.

We have in England a curious belief in first-rate people, meaning all the people we do not know; and this consoles us for the undeniable second-rateness of the people we do know.

We have been poisoned by fairy tales.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and halfway closed there after.

Love is blind. Marriage is an eye-opener.

If any man thinks ill of you, do not be angry with him, for you are worse than he thinks you to be.

I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.

Look! Don't be deceived by appearances - men and things are not what they seem. All who are not on the rock are in the sea!