She never sent the castle to sleep”, said Granny, “that’s just an old wife’s tale. She just stirred up time a little. It’s not as hard as people think, everyone does it all the time. It’s like rubber, is time, you can stretch it to suit yourself.”
Magrat was about to say: That’s not right, time is time, every second lasts a second, that’s its job. Then she recalled weeks that had flown past and afternoons that had lasted forever. Some minutes had lasted hours, some hours had gone past so quickly she hadn’t been aware they’d gone past at all.
“But that’s just people’s perception, isn’t it?”
“Oh yes”, said Granny, “of course it is, it all is, what difference does that make?
Stichwörter: perception time rubber stretch-time
I live in a world where people are guided by limited imagination; only facts that are favorable to them are truths. They are unable to live anyway else. When a person finds out that a fact is against them, it's usually because it's the truth. No one tries to step outside of the edge of reason. No one tries to step beyond the edge of the world.
Lionel SuggsStichwörter: truth perception reality perspective history human-nature
An author must gorge himself on ten thousand images to select the magical one that can define a piece of the world in a way one has never considered before.
Pat ConroyStichwörter: perception writing curiosity
We don't see the world as a botanist who is at the same time an architect, a physician, a geologist, and a ship's captain. Recognizing isn't at all like seeing; the two often don't even agree...
Sten NadolnyStichwörter: perception paintings impressionism
To understand yourself: Is that a discovery or a creation?
Pascal MercierStichwörter: illusions perception honesty self-deception understanding self-awareness character self-knowledge self-image personality
The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence
T.S. EliotStichwörter: perception past history-repeating-itself historical presence historical-perspective the-past past-and-future clarity-of-perception human-perception jared-wheat
The intellect seeks to throw its own interpretation of the real over reality, and in so doing carves the world up into artificial little cubes.
James RozoffStichwörter: perception reality intellect
People perceive the divine according to their own biases. That doesn’t make the experience any less real.
James RozoffStichwörter: perception religion spirituality divine
What if the differences between social strata stem not from genomics or inherent xcellence or even dollars, but merely differences in knowledge? Would this not mean the whole Pyramid is built on shifting sands?"
I speculated such a suggestion could be seen as a serious deviancy.
Melphi seemed delited. "Try this for deviancy: fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' consciences; what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame you for holding up the mirror."
I hid my shock by asking when purebloods might blame themselves.
Melphi relplied, "History suggests, not until they are made to.
Stichwörter: consciousness perception equality justice hatred racism
We prayed the moon would unstopper long enough to suck us through to the other side so we could see how dull the stars were at their backsides.
Lindsay HunterStichwörter: perception magical-realism reality-sucks
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