Pareidolia Quotes

“It’s pareidolia. The human mind is constantly looking for patterns in chaos. Just because we see a face doesn’t mean one’s there.”
― Darcy Coates, The Carrow Haunt

“Walking up a road at night, I have seen a lamp and a lighted window and a cloud make together a most complete and unmistakable face. If anyone in heaven has that face I shall know him again.”
― G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

“We're wired to see patterns
like pictures in grilled cheese.
On Mars, in stars, in cliffsides -
Oh, the things we once believed!”
― Joseph Raphael Becker, Annabelle & Aiden: Oh, The Things We Believed!

“The cold reader exploits that the human mind is a whiz at making senses of information, shaping faces out of leaves, finding religious icons on pieces of toast, and letting us believe general sentences and uncertain questions add up to prophesy.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft