There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

People do dismiss ambient music, don’t they? They call it ‚easy listening,‘ as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

I trust my taste. I trust it completely and I always have done, and I’ve always thought it isn’t that different from everybody else’s.

Reality is a sliding door.

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

I’ve never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a ‚fat cat‘ and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a ‚public-spirited philanthropist‘.

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

What if nothing exists and we’re all in somebody’s dream?

I’m a people’s man – only the people matter.

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don’t read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2’s audience.

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

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

If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.

It is really funny when people say you’d be obvious for a great villain.

Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

If somebody thinks they’re a hedgehog, presumably you just give ‚em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.

September 11 shocked many Americans into an awareness that they had better pay much closer attention to what the U.S. government does in the world and how it is perceived. Many issues have been opened for discussion that were not on the agenda before. That’s all to the good.

There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

I don’t care if people think I am an overactor, as long as they enjoy what I do. People who think that would call Van Gogh an overpainter.

The less you know, the more you believe.

Funny thing is that the poorer people are, the more generous they seem to be.

The thing about delirium is you think it’s great, but it actually isn’t.

Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.

People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.

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.

People like to build their own story about my life. I don’t know if it makes them feel better, or if it makes it okay for them to not like me, but the last thing I grew up as was rich.

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

There may not be one Truth – there may be several truths – but saying that is not to say that reality doesn’t exist.

People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they shall adore those who have ears and hear nothing; they shall burn lamps for those who do not see.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn’t swim.

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

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn’t possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

When it comes to knowing what to say, to charm, I always had it.

I think that more flow of information, the ability to stay connected to more people makes people more effective as people. And I mean, that’s true socially. It makes you have more fun, right. It feels better to be more connected to all these people. You have a richer life.

A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia – to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

The narrow bandwidth of TV has made us think that we are stupider than we are.

I’m not really concerned with portraying this tough warrior – I mean, that’s part of my job and I take that very seriously. But I don’t have anything to hide, and I’m not concerned with what people think.

Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?

Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.

We’ve fallen into a trap of ever-widening orbits of contact, and there is a total disregard for the present moment.

We do not see people as they are, but as they appear to us. And these appearances are usually misleading.

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.