Appearance Quote by Henri Poincare

“In many experiments, the boundary between seeing and not seeing is relatively sharp: an image is downright invisible when presented for 40 milliseconds, but…

— Stanislas Dehaene

As each of us awakens, it impacts human consciousness at a collective level. It is like dropping a tiny pebble of light into a…

— Leonard Jacobson

“Writers and artists know that ethereal moment, when just one, fleeting something--a chill, an echo, the click of a lamp, a question—-ignites the flame…

— Nadine C. Keels

“His classes... had committed mutiny. The simplest, most innocent concepts turned overnight into enemies, capable of triggering full system shutdown. Light is not light…

— Jardine Libaire

One gets into a strange psychological, almost hypnotic, state of mind while on the firing line which probably prevents the mind's eye from observing…

— Fritz Kreisler

Great affectation and great absence of it are at first sight very similar.

— Richard Whately

Where consciousness is concerned, the appearance is the reality.

— John Searle

“I see the awakening of consciousness as a series of spaced flashes, with the intervals between them gradually diminishing until bright blocks of perception…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Early impressions are like glimpses seen through the window by night when lightning is about.

— E. F. Benson

There are places where it is easy to see, places of illumination, where one moves into illumined states of attention.

— Frederick Lenz

“Not unconsciousness, but a ceasing of perception and feeling is experienced.”

— Ayya Khema

The unconscious in us warns us that in art we have to followoneparticular path. And if wefollow it, it isnotthe sign of anunconscious act.On…

— Piet Mondrian