私たちがこの世界を経験し理解するのは、五感を通じて受け入れられ、脳によって解釈される信号を通じてなのである。そして、この両方のプロセスともゆがめられやすい。の英語

We experience and understand the world through signals that are received by the senses and interpreted by the brain - and both stages are subject to distortion.

Which means that our perception of any situation depends only partly on sensory signals being received at that time.

This means that our perception of any situation depends only partly on sensory signals being received at that time.

And so, knowledge from the past, mixed up with assumptions about that knowledge, which may be more or less appropriate, is used to augment information provided by the senses.

And it is only a very short step from there, to perception which occurs in the absence of all immediate signals and has to be labeled extrasensory.

Just because people are corporeal born to this world doesn't mean that they understand everything about it, similarly just because somebody's died doesn't mean that they understand everything about the incorporeal world.

Sometimes I wonder if this world is just in someone's head, and he dreams us all into existence. Perhaps it's even me.

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.

The scientist has a love of facts, even isolated facts, similar to the poet's love of words.

Generally, the sense whether or not an expression is natural can't really be relied on. For example, even if it feels unnatural, it is often easily due to lack of experience.

And we can communicate so many things in so many ways - with our faces, hands, bodies, and voices. We can even write our thoughts in words.

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

The eyes themselves can become selective, ignoring part of what is there, and the brain sometimes insists on seeing things that don't exist at all.

As soon as we are born, the world gets to work on us and transforms us from merely biological into social units.

Psychology, which studies the human mind and human behavior, builds knowledge by observation and experiments.

This is why I want you to face your real feelings and cherish them even if your feelings are not sunny or positive.

Life would be terribly monotonous and deadly boring if everyone felt, thought and spoke the same.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.

There are two contradicting emotions within the human heart. Needless to say, there isn't a person who doesn't feel empathy towards other's misfortunes. However, when you see a person finally able to overcome their misfortunes it is possible to feel a sense of dissatisfaction. To exaggerate a little, it leaves you with a sense that you want to see that person fall into the same misfortune again. Before you know it you unwillingly harbour a sense of hostility towards them.

For world peace, therefore, we must develop the consciousness that we are all one people of planet Earth through continual international cultural and economic exchange.

I think it is certain that there is intelligent life in this universe, but the likelihood of that life coming to Earth is practically nill.

I think it is certain that there is intelligent life in this universe, but the likelihood of that life coming to Earth is practically nil.

Happy people are those who remember only the good things from the past, while unhappy people are those who remember only the opposite.

This complex situation arose because signals from the environment itself can be inadequate.

One doesn't only live their life as an individual human, without realizing it, that person lives their life within their era and with the people within that era.

At any time in history, in any country you can think of, a child grows up borrowing from parents' values. There are some who would point out that the kind of mentality towards education that some women called "education mama" have, is actually emotionally scarring for the child.

As children are known to emulate the values of adults, it is often pointed out such "education mamas" instill a warped sense of values in their children.

a theory called empirical realism

I suppose that we mean by beauty that object, spiritual or material, more often material, which satisfies our aesthetic sense.

I suppose that what we mean by beauty is that object, spiritual or material, more often material, which satisfies our aesthetic sense.