#perception

Too often, it is only love that makes us engaged enough, alert enough, alive enough to see ↗

If there’s a thing, a scene, maybe, an image that you want to see real bad, that you need to see but it doesn’t exist in the world around you, at least not in the form that you envision, then you create it so that you can look at it and have it around, or show it to other people who wouldn’t have imagined it because they perceive reality in a more narrow, predictable way. And that’s it. That’s all an artist does. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#artist #perception #reality #art

It's no good to give money to anybody who thinks money as the root of all evil. ↗

— Toba Beta

#perception #money

People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the world lasts. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#hatred #intolerance #narrow-mindedness #perception #persecution

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and what it saw in a plain way. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion--all in one. ↗

— John Ruskin

#religion

Humans see what they want to see. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#humans #mankind #perception #self-delusion #willful-ignorance

All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#perception

It's all in the mind. ↗

— George Harrison

#mind #perception #psychology #perception

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments. ↗