Bones Quote by Georges Cuvier

“something that at first sight appeared to be the luminous bones of some massive, extinct creature, now disinterred, with its ribs gathered into a…

— Mike McCormack

“Who could think that a person’s entire being is housed in a finger or in a hip bone or in a small piece of…

— Cristina Henriquez

“Looked at again and again half consciously by a mind thinking of something else, any object mixes itself so profoundly with the stuff of…

— Virginia Woolf

Whilst part of what we perceive comes through our senses from the object before us, another part (and it may be the larger part)…

— William James

“The thing can never be separated from someone who perceives it; nor can it ever actually be in itself because its articulations are the…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

This perception of division between the seer and the object that is seen, is situated in the mind. For those remaining in the heart,…

— Ramana Maharshi

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light…

— Saint Augustine

I began thinking about my skeleton, this solid, beautiful thing inside me that I would never see.

— Mary Roach

My Skeleton's arm and hand. This part is about 1 3/4 feet long. Just the forearm.

— Christopher Timmerman

“There is such dissociation between what the eyes see and what the mind envisions. The final thought is just a matter of interpretation, coloured…

— Anirban Bose

“human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capable only of fractured perceptions”

— Salman Rushdie

Images, memories, fragmentary shapes and forms all those sensations, visions, half-thoughts that appear and disappear in the wink of an eye, as one sets…

— Octavio Paz