Alex Kapranos Quotes

You see what you think, you see what you feel, you are what you see If with the camera you can make others see it - that is photography.

I'm sensitive to the things I see.

I am affected by what is around. I don't think many people would admit that.

A feeling is not a fact.

Intelligence is the ability to solve problems, and consciousness is the ability to feel things and have subjective experiences.

Where are my sensations? They have melted into... me, and what is this me, this self, but the sum of these evaporated sensations?

And that is all anyone can do, try to be honest about what he feels, what he's seen or thinks he's seen.

How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'Green'?

You really shouldn’t do that to people," I criticized. "It’s hardly fair." "Do what?" "Dazzle them like that – she’s probably hyperventilating in the kitchen right now." He seemed confused. "Oh come on," I said dubiously. "You have to know the effect you have on people." He tilted his head to one side, and his eyes were curious. "I dazzle people?" "You haven’t noticed? Do you think everybody gets their way so easily?" He ignored my questions. "Do I dazzle you?" "Frequently," I admitted.

For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never can catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe anything but the perception.

Attention without feeling is only a report.

Where consciousness is concerned, the appearance is the reality.

I guess I consider myself at times to have intuition.

Consciousness is the foundation of all thinking; and thinking is the foundation of all consciousness.

In all the languages in the world, there is the same proverb: "What the eyes don't see, the heart doesn't grieve over." Well, I say that there isn't an ounce of truth in it. The further off they are, the closer to the heart are all those feelings that we try to repress and forget.

It is not half so important to know as to feel.

Can any man say with certainty that he was happy at a particular moment of time which he remembers as being delightful? Remembering it certainly makes him happy, because he realizes how happy he could have been, but at the actual moment when the alleged happiness was occurring, did he really feel happy? He was like a man owning a piece of ground in which, unknown to himself, a treasure lay buried.

Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way.

When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.

The difference between closing or opening your eyes is the choice between the imagined vs real. Blinking is only human.

Chirag: Rowley, do you think I exist? Rowley: Nope! I can't even hear you or see you!

The feeling of an unbridgeable gulf between consciousness and brain-process:When does this feeling occur in the present case?It is when I (for example) turn my attention in a particular way on to my own consciousness, and, astonished, say to myself: THIS is supposed to be produced by a process in the brain!--as it were clutching my forehead.

It was probably nothing, but it felt like the world.

We confuse ourselves with space-time events, when in fact we are the ones who generate these space-time events.