Land and water are not really separate things, but they are separate words, and we perceive through words.
David Rains WallaceTags: words perception water land
You could try making sense out of the universe, but you were too small and the parts you needed to see were too large or even smaller.
Kathryn DavisTags: perception perspective universe meaning size
Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans. . . If reality differs from person to person, can we speak of reality singular, or shouldn't we really be talking about plural realities? And if there are plural realities, are some more true (more real) than others? What about the world of a schizophrenic? Maybe it's as real as our world. Maybe we cannot say that we are in touch with reality and he is not, but should instead say, His reality is so different from ours that he can't explain his to us, and we can't explain ours to him. The problem, then, is that if subjective worlds are experienced too differently, there occurs a breakdown in communication ... and there is the real illness.
Philip K. DickTags: perception reality philosophy madness epistemology solipsism postmodern schizophrenia
I believe I am in Hell, therefore I am.
Arthur RimbaudTags: perception paraphrased belief hell
How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of "green"?
Stan BrakhageTags: words perception creativity names labels limits
Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue. . . .
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: art perception experience emotion illusion
[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.
Susan SontagTags: perception morality perspective society civilization prejudice culture normalcy double-standards standards barbarians
And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant, just as unmindful of all the truths and hopes they have brought to America. They see daughters who grow impatient when their mothers talk in Chinese, who think they are stupid when they explain things in fractured English. They see that joy and luck do not mean the same to their daughters, that to these closed American-born minds "joy luck" is not a word, it does not exist. They see daughters who will bear grandchildren born without any connecting hope passed from generation to generation.
Amy TanTags: fear perception women family joy hope language ideas immigration mothers china luck daughters tradition heritage concepts
A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.
Mignon McLaughlinTags: perception
...What happens is of little significance compared with the stories we tell ourselves about what happens. Events matter little, only stories of events affect us.
Rabih AlameddineTags: perception reality stories story storytelling
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