Quotes about Perception

When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Cincinnati because it's always 20 years behind the times.

Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other. It will unriddle many riddles

Being made merely in the image of God but not otherwise resembling him enough to be mistaken by anybody but a very near sighted person.

You cannot trust your eyes, if your imagination is out of focus.

I've experienced a great deal of pain and suffering in my life ...... most of which has never happened.

My works are like water. The works of the great masters are like wine. But everyone drinks water. - From Mark Twain's Notebook, 1885

Last week, I stated this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister, and now wish to withdraw that statement.

There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a Dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And You are but a Thought — a vagrant Thought, a useless Thought, a homeless Thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities.

That which I have seen, in that little moment, will never go out from my memory, but will abide there; and I shall see it all the days, and dream of it all the nights, till I die. Would God I had been blind!

As regards his health--and the rest of the things--the average man is what his environment and his superstitions have made him; and their function is to make him an ass. He can't add up three or four new circumstances together and perceive what they mean; it is beyond him. He is not capable of observing for himself; he has to get everything at second-hand. If what are miscalled the lower animals were as silly as man is, they would all perish from the earth in a year.

I know grammar by ear only, not by note, not by the rules.

I find that the further I go back, the better things were, whether they happened or not.