The experience is there, the reality is there, but how to get at it? Everything I type turns into a lie simply because it is not the truth. —Joyce Carol Oates More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. —William Blake More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Once, when a GI was visiting Pablo Picasso during the liberation of France, he said that he could not understand the artist's paintings: "Why do you paint a person looking from the side and from the front at the same time?" Picasso asked, "Do you have a girlfriend?" "Yes," replied the soldier. "Do you have a picture of her?" The soldier pulled from his wallet a photograph of the girl. Picasso looked at it in mock astonishment and asked, "Is she so small? —Richard Kehl More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You don't see things as they are. You see things as you are. —Talmud More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We say, "Seeing is believing," but actually . . . we are all much better at believing than at seeing. In fact, we are seeing what we believe nearly all the time and only occasionally seeing what we can't believe. —Robert Anton Wilson More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret." . . . I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic train-car constructions, like, say, "the happiness that attends disaster." Or: "the disappointment of sleeping with one's fantasy." I'd like to show how "intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members" connects to "the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age." I'd like to have a word for "the sadness inspired by failing restaurants" as well for "the excitement of getting a room with a minibar. —Jeffrey Eugenides More about this quote Tags: regret experience happiness joy sadness emotion Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. —George Orwell More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I am not at all interested in the pursuit of happiness. I am interested in pursuing a truth, and the truth often seems to be not happiness but its opposite. —Jamaica Kincaid More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In order to live with integrity, we must stop fragmenting and compartmentalizing our lives. Telling lies at work and then expecting great truths in meditation is nonsensical. —Sharon Salzberg More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Truth is a rough, honest, helter-skelter terrier that none like to see brought into their drawing rooms. —Ouida More about this quote Tags: truth messiness propriety Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg. —Abraham Lincoln More about this quote Tags: truth dog anatomy tail leg Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The most striking contradiction of our civilization is the fundamental reverence for truth that we profess, and the thoroughgoing disregard for it that we practice. —Vilhjalmur Stefansson More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Story by Jung of a conversation with a chief of the Pueblo Indians: Jung asked the chief's opinion of the white man and was told that it was not a high one. White people, said Ochwiay Biano, seem always upset, always restlessly looking for something, with the result that their faces are covered with wrinkles. He added that white men must be crazy because they think with their heads, and it is well-known that only crazy people do that. Jung asked in surprise how the Indian thought, to which Ochwiay Biano replied that naturally he thought with his heart. —Laurens Van der Post More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as brotherhood, however much you preach, posture, or agree, unless you live it. —Faith Baldwin More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Revolutions are not made: they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back. —Wendell Phillips More about this quote Tags: past growth evolution revolution Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email