Perception Limits Quotes

In short, if there were external bodies, it is impossible we should ever come to know it; and if there were not, we might have the very same reasons to think there were that we have now.

What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.

As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

To tell you the truth, I've never met anybody who can envision more than three dimensions. There are some who claim they can, and maybe they can; it's hard to say.

Seeing is limited by two borders: Strong light, which blinds, and total darkness.

Humans create their own boundaries, their own limitations. We say what is humanly possible, and what is not possible. Then just because we believe it, it becomes truth for us.

There are things which seem incredible to most men who have not studied Mathematics.

You will not ever perceive the truth that is reality. There are many realities.

There is no criterion by which to recognize what is a color, except that it is one of our colors.

The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist.

Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.

All you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be.

Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.

Our real reality is beyond the five senses.

The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.

We may be surrounded by some greater reality, to which we are oblivious. And even if we could somehow perceive it in some entirely new way, it is extremely doubtful we would be able to comprehend what we perceived.

Most of us are totally, completely misaligned. God-consciousness is up there, while most of us live down here at ego-consciousness. But what's up there can't recognize what's down here. If you were a frog, and you were trying to see what this room is like, what would you see? Just try and picture it.

To ask for a purely intellectual proof of the existence of God is like asking for the privilege of being able to see with your ears!

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.

Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world.

Our senses perceive no extreme. Too much sound deafens us; too much light dazzles us; too great distance or proximity hinders ourview. Too great length and too great brevity of discourse tends to obscurity; too much truth is paralyzing.... In short, extremes are for us as though they were not, and we are not within their notice. They escape us, or we them.

A fish has no concept of water.

God has been kind to dogs in no putting a sense of beauty into their heads.

There are wavelengths that people cannot see, there are sounds that people cannot hear, and maybe computers have thoughts that people cannot think.

A text is not a text unless it hides from the first comer, from the first glance, the law of its composition and the rules of its game. A text remains, moreover, forever imperceptible. Its laws and rules are not, however, harbored in the inaccessibility of a secret; it is simply that they can never be booked, in the present, into anything that could rigorously be called a perception.