“She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception.”
“There is no truth. There is only perception.”
“Deceptions of the senses are the truths of perception.”
“Truth is a matter for theologians and philosophers. Politics is not concerned with the truth but with perceptions.”
“Each of us carries around those growing up places, the institutions, a sort of backdrop, a stage set. So often we act out the present against the backdrop of the past, within a frame of perception that is so familiar, so safe that is is terrifying to risk changing it even when we know our perceptions are distorted, limited, constricted by that old view.”