Quotes about Perception
Kada sedite sat vremena kraj lepe devojke, to prodje kao minut. Sedite minut na vrelu pec i to ce trajati kao sat. To se zove relativitet.
— Albert Einstein
The ability to portray people in still life and in motion requires the highest measure of intuition and talent.
— Albert Einstein
Why, if it weren't for this 'internal illumination' [i.e., sentience] the world would be nothing but a pile of dirt!
— Albert Einstein
The [quantum] theory reminds me a little of the system of delusions of an exceedingly intelligent paranoiac.
— Albert Einstein
Every reminiscence is colored by the way things are today, and therefore by a delusive point of view.
— Albert Einstein
The trouble with fiction, said John Rivers, is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
— Aldous Huxley
An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood.
— Aldous Huxley
To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves.
— Aldous Huxley
The self is coming from a state of pure awareness from the state of being. All the rest that comes about in a outward manifesation of the physical world, including fluctuations which end up as thoughts and actions
— Aldous Huxley
He was a philosopher, if you know what that was.' 'A man who dreams of fewer things than there are in heaven and earth,' said the Savage promptly. 'Quite so…
— Aldous Huxley
Those who feel themselves despised do well to look despising.
— Aldous Huxley
Whenever the masses seized political power, then it was happiness rather than truth and beauty that mattered.
— Aldous Huxley