Critical Quote by Vladimir Nabokov

“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

“I am struck with incredible force by this proof that sight is like a hand that tries to seize flowing water. Yes, our eyes…

— Muriel Barbery

“Henceforward our struggle against the things of this world became harder, because it is now no longer in our power to enjoy intelligible realities…

— Nikodimos

“Only a small part of reality, for a human being, is what is actually going on; the greater part is what he imagines in…

— Debby Irving

“no matter the acuity of our senses, no matter how educated we are or how good we are or how much conviction we live…

— John Cullinan

“All that we truly possess are our own sensations; it is in them, rather than in what they sense, that we must base our…

— Fernando Pessoa

“Human kind gradually begins to remove the blinders from their consciousness about life, about what is real and what is not. Intuition and psychic…

— Elaine Seiler

“Human beings are stuck in a Midas-like predicament: we can't directly experience the true texture of reality because everything we touch turns to matter.”

— Nick Herbert

“There is no greater sensation of consciousness than to expend yourself completely through the quickening fires of passion.”

— Bryant McGill

“So many times a man's thoughts will waver, That it turns him back from honored paths, As false sight turns a beast, when he…

— Dante Alighieri

“I began to perceive more deeply than it has ever yet been stated, the trembling immateriality, the mistlike transience, of this seemingly so solid…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“A real human being, however profoundly we sympathize with him, is in large part perceived by our senses, that is to say, remains opaque…

— Marcel Proust