quick-quotes quill: our perceptual universe

each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.
william james

what you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing; it also depends on what sort of person you are.
c.s. lewis


men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.
epictetus

space is all one space and thought is all one thought, but my mind divides its spaces into spaces into spaces and thoughts into thoughts into thoughts. like a large condominium. occasionally i think about the one space and the one thought, but usually i don't. usually i think about my condominium.
andy warhol

if we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.
ludwig wittgenstein

the moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.
henry miller

it suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the earth. i put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet earth. i didn't feel like a giant. i felt very, very small.
neil armstrong