perception
“For man has closed himself up, til he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.”
“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”
“I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.”
“Why are you so busy with this or that or good or bad? Pay attention to how things blend.”
“It is so, if you think so.”
“Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.”
“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.”
“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
“A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.”
“Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.”
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”