7 Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes on Perception

Friedrich Nietzsche quotes on perception

27. If each us had a different kind of sense perception - if we could only perceive things now as a bird, now as a worm, now as a plant, or if one of us saw a stimulus as red, another as blue, while a third even heard the same stimulus as a sound - then no one would speak of such a regularity of nature, rather, nature would be grasped only as a creation which is subjective in the highest degree. After all, what is a law of nature as such for us? We are not acquainted with it in itself, but only with its effects, which means in its relation to other laws of nature - which, in turn, are known to us only as sums of relations. Therefore all these relations always refer again to others and are thoroughly incomprehensible to us in their essence.

69. Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest at hand and most vulgar appear as if it were vast, and reality itself.

72. Art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the good conscience to be able to turn ourselves into such a phenomenon.

135. The sage as astronomer. - If you still experience the stars as something 'over you,' you still don't have the eyes of a knower.

158. Women are considered profound. Why? Because we never fathom their depths. But women aren't even shallow.

174. Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

182. That faith makes blessed under certain circumstances, that blessedness does not make of a fixed idea a true idea, that faith moves no mountains but puts mountains where there are none: a quick walk through a madhouse enlightens one sufficiently about this.