You´re not perceiving what's out there. You're perceiving whatever your brain tells you.

Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.

There is a looming chasm between what your brain knows and what your mind is capable of accessing.

Because vision appears so effortless, we are like fish challenged to understand water.

Behavior is the outcome of the battle among internal systems.

.. we are not conscious of most things until we ask ourselves questions about them

We are not at the center of ourselves, but instead — like the Earth in the Milky Way, and the Milky Way in the universe — far out on a distant edge, hearing little of what is transpiring.

If you ever feel lazy or dull, take heart: you’re the busiest, brightest thing on the planet.

As Carl Jung put it, “In each of us there is another whom we do not know.” As Pink Floyd sang, “There’s someone in my head, but it’s not me.

Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death; Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare They fall, and leave their little lives in air.

Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

ELECTED Silence, sing to me And beat upon my whorlèd ear, Pipe me to pastures still and be The music that I care to hear.

He had no imagination either-fatal for one engaged in child-rearing

French women don't have too many clothes - a few good pieces that last for a while and are classic and timeless.

The greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.

There's no love like the first.

I taught myself off records, Memphis Slim, them old piano players, then added to it. Yeah, hard and loud, beat it to pieces.

So when you're cold From the inside out And don't know what to do, Remember love and friendship, And warmth will come to you.

God will hold sinners with one hand over the pit of hell, while He torments them with the other.