Internal Perception Quotes

And this is the strangest of all paradoxes of the human adventure; we live inside all experience, but we are permitted to bear witness only to the outside. Such is the riddle of life and the story of the passing of our days.

Conscience is the internal perception of God's Moral Law.

Self-esteem is not based on itself.

The world in your mind is as real as the world outside of it.

The world is not outside you.

I think generally I'm kind of interested in subjective experience, what goes on inside someone's head, that being all they really know of the world.

Properly speaking, should any individual ever have exact, clear knowledge of his own core consciousness?" "I wouldn't know," I said. "Nor would we," said the scientists.

Gravity is not controlled physically in us by one of the 5 ordinary senses. We always reduce a gravity experience to an autocognizance, real or imagined, registered inside us in the region of the stomach.

The people inside the company are the people who define GE, not the people outside the company.

Memory... is an internal rumor.

Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside.

I don't think I'm tangible to myself.

And I find myself saying, “It wasn’t really about her.” And finding it’s true. What do you mean?” Norah asks. It was about the feeling, you know? She caused it in me, but it wasn’t about her. It was about my reaction, what I wanted to feel and then convinced myself that I felt, because I wanted it that bad. That illusion. It was love because I created it as love.

There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.

You don't really see yourself doing things, of course, but you feel.

It doesn't have anything to do with how the world perceives you. What matters is what you see.

There is no reality except the one contained within us.

Dreams and waking life are both the same kinds of things. The difference is that dreaming is perceiving free of external constraints, whereas perceiving otherwise is dreaming true. Meaning what you dream about actually happens.

The big show is inside my head.

You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.

Introverts often assume what's inside is visible on the outside. We don't have to invent or fake the emotion; we just need to allow it to be seen!

The same stimuli in the world can be inducing very different experiences internally and it's probably based on a single change in a gene. What I am doing is pulling the gene forward and imaging and doing behavioural tests to understand what that difference is and how reality can be constructed so differently.

What happens behind your eyes is more important than what happens in front of them. This is a reversal from the way that we have been taught and the way that we had experienced the world as five sensory humans.

Those with Anton's syndrome are not pretending they are not blind; they truly believe they are not blind. Their verbal reports, while inaccurate, are not lies. Instead, they are experiencing what they take to be vision, but it is all internally generated.