perception Quotes

"The thing that is important is the thing that is not seen."

"Here is my secret. It is very simple: one sees well only with the heart. The essential is invisible to the eyes."

"And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye."

"When I find a woman attractive, I have nothing at all to say. I simply watch her smile. Intellectuals take apart her face in order to explain it bit by bit, but they no longer see the smile."

"All men have the stars," he answered, "but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travellers, the stars are guides. For others they are no more than little lights in the sky. For others,... ...

"Behind all seen things lies something vaster; everything is but a path, a portal or a window opening on something other than iteself."

"A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral."

"One only really sees with the heart."

"Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the... ...

"The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them."