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The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of.
-Charles H. Perkhurst
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All seems infected that the infected spy,
As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
-Alexander Pope
An Essay on Criticism, 1711
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Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
-Ezra Pound
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Perception is merely reality filtered through the prism of your soul.
-Christopher A. Ray
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The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
-Agnes Repplier
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Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevail, nor because, as Milton suggests, Truth will always win in a free and open encounter. It should be fostered for its own sake.
-Richard Rorty
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Think as you work, for in the final analysis, your worth to your company comes not only in solving problems, but also in anticipating them.
-Harold Wallace Ross
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The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.
-George Sand
Handsome Lawrence, Ch. 1
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Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.
-Adam Smith
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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
-Wallace Stevens
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Poetry has to be something more than a conception of the mind. It has to be a revelation of nature. Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.
-Wallace Stevens
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In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.
-Thomas Szasz
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Any perception can connect us to reality properly and fully. What we see doesn't have to be pretty, particularly; we can appreciate anything that exists. There is some principle of magic in everything, some living quality. Something living, something real, is taking place in everything.
-Chogyam Trungpa
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Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.
-Marquis De Vauvenargues
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Being naive simply means that we reject received wisdom that something is a problem. We are always naive relative to some definition of the situation, and if we try to become less so, we may accept a definition that confines the definition of small wins to narrower issues than is necessary.
-Karl Weick
Making Sense of the Organization pp438-9
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For many ages it has been allowed by sensible men, Nihil est in intellectu quod non fuit prius in sensu: That is, There is nothing in the understanding which was not first perceived by some of the senses. All the knowledge which we naturally have is originally derived from our senses. And therefore those who want any sense cannot have the least knowledge or idea of the objects of that sense; as they that never had sight have not the least knowledge or conception of light or colours.
-John Wesley
Sermon: The Difference Between Walking by Sight, and Walking by Faith, 1872
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It is true that there are exercises that can strengthen the 'muscle' that enable us to push back the bounds of acceptation. But these are relatively unimportant. The real problem is that we are trapped in misconceptions that always deceive us, as the matador's cape deceives the bull; that continue to deceive us a million times over the course of a lifetime. Wittgenstein once said that traditional philosophy causes a form of mental cramp, and that the aim of his philosophy was to remove this mental cramp, or to 'show the fly the way out of the bottle'. Our misconceptions involve the passive fallacy and notion that consciousness is a plane mirror that cannot lie about the world it reflects.
-Colin Wilson
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The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.
-Virginia Woolf
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Books about Perception
