Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

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

It was really hard for them to intimidate me. They felt I was intimidating. One of the growers had a name for me: I think it was ‚dragon lady‘ or something like it.

They’re right to think that about me, because I’m the person most likely to sleep with my female fans, I genuinely love other women. And I think they know that.

Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise, you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.

Everybody has their thing they like or don’t like to see. It’s all in your head. That’s why people take their own pictures, because it’s difficult for someone else to capture what you seek.

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident.

For people who may think they know, or have snippets of who I am, you can attack that person. That’s part of being a public figure.

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.

I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

When I left Dortmund, I said it’s not important what people think when you come in but what they think when you leave.

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.

Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories – and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.

Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it’s really how it works.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

Assuming if there’s such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail?

We’re hardwired for connection. There’s no arguing with the bioscience. But we can want it so badly we’re trying to hot-wire it.

I have to be seen to be believed.

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

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that – is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

In my opinion, there is no aspect of reality beyond the reach of the human mind.

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

It takes a smart man to play dumb.

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.

Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it’s their fault.

I don’t want people to think of me as sexy.

It’s not just human nature to associate in tribes. It’s deeper than that.

Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.

Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I’m referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man.

Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything.

A person hears only what they understand.

The little man is still a man.

You can’t be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who’s for you and who’s against you.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

Few people have the imagination for reality.

If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours.

Some men do think I’m a psycho bunny-boiler.

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

As social animals, we are extremely susceptible to the moods of other people. This gives us the power to subtly infuse into people the appropriate mood for influencing them.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital.