"Things which we see are not by..." - Quote by Immanuel Kant
Things which we see are not by themselves what we see ... It remains completely unknown to us what the objects may be by themselves and apart from the receptivity of our senses. We know nothing but our manner of perceiving them.
More by Immanuel Kant
“Humanity is at its greatest perfection in the race of the whites.”
“The evil effect of science upon men is principally this, that by far the greatest number of those who wish to display a knowledge of it accomplish no improvement at all of the understanding, but only a perversity of it, not to mention that it serves most of them as a tool of vanity.”
“Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.”
More on Perception
“Most people, probably, are in doubt about certain matters ascribed to their past. They may have seen them, may have said them, done them, or they may only have dreamed or imagined they did so.”
“But the impressions which the morning makes vanish with its dews, and not even the most "persevering mortal" can preserve the memory of its freshness to midday.”
“The sea was indistinguishable from the sky, except that the sea was slightly creased as if a cloth had wrinkles in it.”
More on Reality
“You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.”
“We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infinitesimal hairline between a causative past and an absorbingly important future. We have no present. Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation. We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience. We are therefore out of touch with reality.”
“The girl never really lived, and so she has never really died.”