#perception

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Remember that foul words or blows in themselves are no outrage, but your judgment that they are so.

When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly. When people see some things as good, other things become bad.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

If you want to take something, you must first give it. This is called the subtle perception of the way things are.

In the end, one experiences only oneself.

To perceive is to suffer; for to be conscious is to be touched by the friction of existence.

Love is an act of seeing what is unique and irreplaceable in the other person.

Without selective interest, experience is an utter chaos.

Human beings have a tendency to perceive only what accords with their pre-existing interests.

Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

We notice only what we have names for, and pass by the rest unseen.

Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present: each as he sees himself, each as the other sees him, and each as he really is.

Self-love increases or diminishes the good qualities of our friends in proportion to the satisfaction we receive from them.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

The act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved.

The world is a festival only to the wise.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Life is a mirror: it reflects its own face to the watcher.

Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.

A dog has the soul of a philosopher.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

Choose not to be harmed—and you won't feel harmed. Don't feel harmed—and you haven't been.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.