Gertrude Stein Quotes

Nobody ever lived in the past.

We are never aware of the present; each instant of living becomes perceptible only when it is past, so that in a sense we do not live at all, but only remember living.

What time has ever been a simple time for those who are living it?

Time is the element that controls the consciousness, the very being of the people.

I think about things like the fact that nobody knows what time is. Time is what? Nobody can describe it, even physics or math or anything else. But it is what we continuously experience. It's the state of our unfolding, in a way, and in that sense that the continuous reopening of reality is what I think of as, perhaps, a worldview.

The perception of the audience is the interesting part. If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on or not?

Every moment is an experience.

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Without consciousness, space and time are nothing.

One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time his film will somehow bear a closer resemblance to it.

Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

You have to live in your times.

Because everything up to now is a story and everything after now is a story.

The world is chiefly a mental fact. From mind it receives the forms of time and space, the principle of casuality[sic], color, warmth, and beauty. Were there no mind, there would be no world.

You do not have to imagine things; reality gives you all you need.

If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on?

Our earth is round, and, among other things, that means that you and I can hold completely different points of view and both be right. The difference of our positions will show stars in your window I cannot even imagine. Your sky may burn with light, while mine, at the same moment, spreads beautiful to darkness. Still we must choose how we separately corner the circling universe of our experience. Once chosen, our cornering will determine the message of any star and darkness we encounter.

Life can seem short or life can seem long, depending on how you live it.

Time and space are just projections of your consciousness.

Reality is the completion of experience.

There is neither past nor future. There is only the present. Yesterday was the present to you when you experienced it, and tomorrow will be also the present when you experience it. Therefore, experience takes place only in the present, and beyond experience nothing exists.

Time is so strange and life is twice as strange.

'We live' writes Pursewarden somewhere 'lives based upon selected fictions. Our view of reality is conditioned by our position in space and time — not by our personalities as we like to think. Thus every interpretation oа reality is based upon a unique position. Two paces east or west and the whole picture is changed.

The physical body is conceived and constructed in consciousness as are time and space. All happens within our self.

Well, I think I'm not a non-believer, and I'm not a believer. But, on the other hand, I couldn't give you a good enough reason why EVP doesn't exist. I don't know enough about it, so how could I say it's not true. Plus, a person's reality is a person's reality so that's your belief system. It's all perception anyway, isn't it.