Confusion Quote by Arthur Koestler

Man is a being in search of meaning.

— Plato

Brutes gaze on sights, they are arrested by sounds; and what they see and what they hear are sights and sounds only. The intellectof…

— John Henry Newman

“man's sense is falsely asserted to be the standard of things; on the contrary, all the perceptions both of the senses and the mind…

— Francis Bacon

“Let’s say (since in writing a book one has to say something) that reality or existence is a multidimensional and interwoven system of varying…

— Alan Wilson Watts

The Imagination that is raised in man (or any other creature imbued with the faculty of imagining) by words, or other voluntary signs, is…

— Thomas Hobbes

The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his…

— Ernst Mach

Man is a multi-sensorial being. Occasionally he verbalizes … and we must seriously examine the implications of the fact that man does not communicate…

— Ray Birdwhistell

“It is strange that the tactile sense, which is so infinitely less precious to men than sight, becomes at critical moments our main, if…

— Vladimir Nabokov

He who studies it [Nature] has continually the exquisite pleasure of discerning or half discerning and divining laws; regularities glimmer through an appearance of…

— John Robert Seeley

When we do not know the truth of a thing, it is good that there should exist a common error which determines the mind…

— Blaise Pascal

“Meaning is often found embedded in the silent moments of our lives when we can hear and see what matters most, the things audible…

— Toni Sorenson

The senses don't just make sense of life in bold or subtle acts of clarity, they tear reality apart into vibrant morsels and reassemble…

— Diane Ackerman