Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Perception
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There is nothing outside of us that is not at the same time in us, and as the external world has its colors the eye, too, has colors.
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As soon as any one belongs to a narrow creed in science, every unprejudiced and true perception is gone.
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Distance... is like futurity. A dim vastness is spread before our souls; the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those of our vision... But alas! when we have attained our object, when the distant 'there' becomes the present 'here,' all is changed; we are as poor and circumscribed as ever, and our souls still languish for unattainable happiness.
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The eye doesn't see any shapes, it sees only what is differentiated through light and dark or through colors.
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No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge.
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The light is there, and colors surround us. However, if there were no light nor colors in our own eye, we wouldn't perceive such things outside of us.
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