Perception Filter Quotes

It is not possible to completely eliminate mediation between you as an observer and the history you are trying to understand.

The world is not real for me until it has been pushed through the mesh of language.

If enough of us believe, a new thing can be made to exist. Belief structure creates a filter through which chaos is sifted into order.

I don't think I could tell the whole truth about anything. That's a pretty heavy burden, because we all just view the world through this little piece of coke bottle.

To the extent that language forces experiences into categories it is a screen between reality and the human being. In a word, we pay for its benefits... Therefore, while using language, as we must of necessity, we should be aware of its shortcomings.

I know all too well that people only see what they want to see and remember only what they want to remember.

When you follow your thoughts and watch them attach to certain things, it makes certain things real and other things unreal, and you realize that this is all created by your mind.

That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.

Men seek for vocabularies that are reflections of reality. To this end, they must develop vocabularies that are selections of reality. And any selection of reality must, in certain circumstances, function as a deflection of reality.

The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.

Even if any given terminology is a reflection of reality, by its very nature as a terminology it must be a selection of reality; and to this extent it must function also as a deflection of reality.

I don't know anything about Osama Bin Laden that doesn't come to me through the filter of the West and its propaganda.

Everything we see is but a mirror of what we are.

Millions of items in the outward order are present to my senses which never properly enter into my experience. Why? Because they have no interest for me. My experience is what I agree to attend to. Only those items which I notice shape my mind --without selective interest, experience is an utter chaos.

The eyes see everything through the heart.

The mind can be thought of as containing reels and reels of motion picture film about our past experiences. These images are superimposed not only on each other but also on the lens through which we experience the present.