perception Quotes

"The house, the stars, the desert -- what gives them their beauty is something that is invisible!"

Imagination is a sort of faint perception.

"The environment is everything that isn't me."

Yellow-colored objects appear to be gold

Our opinions change when we are happy and friendly compared to when we are upset and hostile.

"People where you live," the little prince said, "grow five thousand roses in one garden... yet they don't find what they're looking for... They don't find it," I answered. And yet what they're looking for could be found in a... ...

The brave man, if he be compared with the coward, seems foolhardy; and, if with the foolhardy man, seems a coward.

If thinking is like perceiving, it must be either a process in which the soul is acted upon by what is capable of being thought, or a process different from but analogous to that. The thinking part of the soul... ...

"It's quite simple: One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes."

"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."

Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one,... ...

"But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart."