Perception Quotes

If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.[Also known as:]You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

The right perception of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.[Richtiges Auffassen einer Sache und Mißverstehn der gleichen Sache schließen einander nicht vollständig aus.]

Perception is naturally surpassed toward action; better yet, it can be revealed only in and through projects of action. The world is revealed as an “always future hollow,” for we are always future to ourselves.[La perception se dépasse naturellement vers l’action; mieux, elle ne peut se dévoiler que dans et par des projets d’action. Le monde se dévoile comme un « creux toujours futur », parce que nous sommes toujours futurs a nous-mémes.]

Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things which differ, and the difference of things which are alike.[L’esprit consiste à connaître la ressemblance des choses diverses et la différence des choses semblables.]

We see the world, not as it is, but as we are – or, as we are conditioned to see it.

Two people can see the same thing, disagree, and yet both be right. It’s not logical; its psychological.

To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the bad dream.

To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.

No psychologist has yet thought that the imagination is a necessary ingredient of perception itself.[Dass die Einbildungskraft ein nothwendiges Ingrediens der Wahrnehmung selbst sei, daran hat wol noch kein Psychologe gedacht.]

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.