#perception

Old age. All the facial detail is visible; all the traces life has left there are to be seen. The face is furrowed, wrinkled, sagging, ravaged by time. But the eyes are bright and, if not young, then somehow transcend the time that otherwise marks the face. It is as though someone else is looking at us, from somewhere inside the face, where everything is different. One can hardly be closer to another human soul. ↗

— Karl Ove Knausgård

#eyes #humans #life #old-age #perception

Andrei, did you like the opera?" "Not particularly." "Andrei, do you see what you're missing?" "I don't think I do, Kira. It's all rather silly. And useless." "Can't you enjoy things that are useless, merely because they are beautiful?" "No. But I enjoyed it." "The music?" "No. The way you listened to it. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#beauty #music #perception #art

Don't be cool. Like everything. ↗

— Shaky Kane

#entertainment #perception #taste #wisdom #art

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty. ↗

— David Hume

#beholder #evil #god #perception #religion

You can see a rose both in two ways. First, through its beautiful petals. The other, through its thorns ↗

— Aries Eroles

#rose #beauty

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

— Stephen R. Covey

#perception #change

I'm a real relationship person - contrary to public perception. I'm either in one or I'm not. ↗

— Sienna Miller

#either #i #perception #person #public

For whatever be the knowledge which we are able to obtain of God, either by perception or reflection, we must of necessity believe that He is by many degrees far better than what we perceive Him to be. ↗

— Origen

#believe #better #degrees #either #far

The perception is that more important people watch news in the evenings than in the mornings. ↗

— Reese Schonfeld

#important #important people #more #mornings #news

Perception is reality. ↗

— Lee Atwater

#reality