Optical Quotes

62 quotes by 46 authors

We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind… — Albert Einstein
Our separation from each other is an optical illusion. — Albert Einstein
Time is an optical illusion- never quite as soild or strong as we think it is — Jodi Picoult
There are two kinds of visual memory: one when you skillfully recreate an image in the laboratory of your mind, with your eyes open (and… — Vladimir Nabokov
You know, when I was in love, I was always inventing things. A whole array of tricks, illusions and optical effects to amuse my lady… — Mathias Malzieu
That's why it's always worth having a few philosophers around the place. One minute it's all is truth beauty and is beauty truth, and does… — Terry Pratchett
To achieve accurate knowledge of others, if such a thing were possible, we could only ever arrive at it through the slow and unsure recognition… — Marcel Proust
In the neuter austerity of that terrain all phenomena were bequeathed a strange equality and no one thing nor spider nor stone nor blade of… — Cormac McCarthy
I looked across the river to Manhattan. It was a great view. When Sadie and I had first arrived at Brooklyn House, Amos had told… — Rick Riordan
The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man. — Victor Hugo
Our perceptions are fallible. We sometimes see what isn't there. We are prey to optical illusions. Occasionally we hallucinate. We are error-prone. — Carl Sagan
Love is an optical illusion that makes you believe the object of your affection is the most beautiful person in the world. — Tom Holt
What had started out as a game was now an open challenge, as well as a direct threat. Any further action would bear results, it… — Jeaniene Frost
A person experiences life as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. Our task must be to free ourselves… — Albert Einstein
Art first of all is optical. That's where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think. — Paul Cezanne
I was fascinated with optical illusions. — Temple Grandin
To get high data transfer rates in communicating information, you would love to use optical fibers. The problem is that light is extremely hard to… — Lene Hau
Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you… — James Patrick Murray
Mission impossible completed, obstacles of optical illusions, we dont really see em. — Currensy
Theres no cure for ugly, but you can make yourself into a human optical illusion. — Jenna Marbles

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