#perception

Are you listening, Jasper? Sometimes you'll be walking in the city late at night, and a woman walking in front of you will spin her head around and then cross the street simply because some members of your gender rape women and molest children! ↗

— Steve Toltz

#perceptions #women #world #men

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

— Toba Beta

#perception #money

it crossed Farren's mind that although death seemed big, life was even bigger ↗

— Kate Grenville

#perception #death

You differ from a great man in only one respect: the great man was once a very little man, but he developed one important quality: he recognized the smallness and narrowness of his thoughts and actions. Under the pressure of some task that meant a great deal to him, he learned to see how his smallness, his pettiness endangered his happiness. In other words, a great man knows when and in what way he is a little man. A little man does not know he is little and is afraid to know. He hides his pettiness and narrowness behind illusions of strength and greatness, someone else's strength and greatness. He's proud of his great generals but not of himself. He admires an idea he has not had, not one he has had. The less he understands something, the more firmly he believes in it. And the better he understands an idea, the less he believes in it. ↗

— Wilhelm Reich

#knowledge #orgone #pride #projection #self-knowledge

What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#person

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. ↗