"We are shaped by each other. We adjust not to the reality of a world, but to the reality of other thinkers."

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Source : Joseph Chilton Pearce (2002). “The Crack in the Cosmic Egg: New Constructs of Mind and Reality”, p.63, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

Joseph Chilton Pearce

#Reality Quotes #World Quotes #Thinker Quotes

“one blow in anger [would] kill, probably, a child from aged two to eight. Those over eight would take two blows to kill.”
“I do not understand what makes me take a picture. Cartier-Bresson talks about the decisive moment, the necessity to function with lynx eyes and silk gloves. Perhaps what happens when you press the shutter is an intuitive act infused with all you have learned.”
“We know that the Zanj (blacks) are the least intelligent and the least discerning of mankind, and the least capable of understanding the consequences of actions.”
“The music I desire must be supple enough to adapt itself to the lyrical effusions of the soul and the fantasy of dreams.”
“I didn't know what the hell Charlie Parker was playing... I just liked the way he played.”
“It would be nice once during my life to go over [to Europe] and study the original paintings of the Masters.”
“I would be lost without baseball. I don't think I could stand being away from it as long as I was alive.”
“How foolish of me to believe that it would be that easy. I had confused the appearance of trees and automobiles, and people with a reality itself, and believed that a photograph of these appearances to be a photograph of it. It is a melancholy truth that I will never be able to photograph it and can only fail. I am a reflection photographing other reflections within a reflection. To photograph reality is to photograph nothing.”

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