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• The lover is moved by the thing loved, as the sense is by that which perceives, and it unites with it and they become one and the same thing... when the lover is united with the beloved it finds rest there; when the burden is laid down there it finds rest.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Lovers

  Leonardo (da Vinci) (1980). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Black and white is a very minimalist art form and unlike color photographs does not pretend to mimic the world in a manner similar to the way the human eye might perceive...
  
  Black and white is essentially an abstract way to interpret and transform what one might refer to as reality.

  Roger Ballen

  Art, Eye, Black And White

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• Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy and the quoted tattle merely the arrow.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Arrows, People, Enemy

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jackson R. Bryer, John Richard Kuehl (1997). “The Basil and Josephine Stories”, p.189, Simon and Schuster

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• Experiments in the visual arts (the invention of new ways of seeing things), are made because, due to the way the apparatus that makes up the mind is made, old processes and patterns have continually to be broken up in order to make it possible to perceive the new aspects and arrangements of evolving consciousness. The great enemy of intelligence is complacency.

  John Dos Passos

  Art, Order, Broken

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• It is a responsibility we perceive from the entire international community to protect the stability of the single currency as well as the European frame work.

  Giorgio Napolitano

  Responsibility, Community, Currency

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• Take the case of the infinite ocean. There is no limit to its water. Suppose a pot is immersed in it: there is water both inside and outside the pot. The jnani sees that both inside and outside there is nothing but Paramatman. Then what is this pot? It is 'I-consciousness'. Because of the pot the water appears to be divided into two parts; because of the pot you seem to perceive an inside and an outside. One feels that way as long as this pot of 'I' exists. When the 'I' disappears, what is remains. That cannot be described in words.

  Ramakrishna

  Ocean, Two, Long

  "The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna". Book by Sri Ramakrishna, translated by Swami Nikhilananda, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, 1942.

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• The ocean is the only alien and potentially hostile environment on the planet into which we tend to venture without thinking about the animals that live there, how they behave, how they support themselves, and how they perceive us. I know of no one who would set off into the jungles of Malaysia armed only with a bathing suit, a tube of suntan cream, and a book, and yet that's precisely how we approach the oceans.

  Peter Benchley

  Ocean, Book, Animal

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• Here I beg you to observe in passing that the scruples that prevented ancient writers from using arithmetical terms in geometry, and which can only be a consequence of their inability to perceive clearly the relation between these two subjects, introduced much obscurity and confusion into their explanations.

  Rene Descartes

  Two, Confusion, Experience

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• A woman’s beauty is supposed to be her grand project and constant insecurity. We’re meant to shellac our lips with five different glosses, but always think we’re fat. Beauty is Zeno’s paradox. We should endlessly strive for it, but it’s not socially acceptable to admit we’re there. We can’t perceive it in ourselves. It belongs to the guy screaming 'nice tits.

  Molly Crabapple

  Nice, Thinking, Guy

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• Within the human consciousness is the unique ability to perceive the transparency between absolute, permanent relationships, contained in the insubstantial forms of a geometric order, and the transitory, changing forms of our actual world. The content of our experience results from an immaterial, abstract, geometric architecture which is composed of harmonic waves of energy, nodes of relationality, melodic forms springing forth from the eternal realm of geometric proportion.

  Robert Lawlor

  Unique, Order, World

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• Every time you see someone sticking up a 7-Eleven, the kid's wearing a hoodie. Every time you see a mugging on a surveillance camera or they get the old lady in the alcove, it's a kid wearing a hoodie. You have to recognize that this whole stylizing yourself as a gangsta - you're going to be a gangsta wannabe? Well, people are going to perceive you as a menace.

  Geraldo Rivera

  Kids, Gangsta, Surveillance Cameras

  "Geraldo: Martin killed due to 'hoodie'" by Mj Lee, www.politico.com. March 23, 2012.

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• Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Evil

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• The body is not a permanent dwelling, but a sort of inn which is to be left behind when one perceives that one is a burden to the host.

  Seneca the Younger

  Dwelling, Body, Host

  Epistulae ad Lucilium CXX

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• By seeing the otherness in that which is most unfamiliar, we can learn to see it too in that which at first seemed merely ordinary. If wilderness can do this - if it can help us perceive and respect a nature we had forgotten to recognize as natural - then it will become part of the solution to our environmental dilemmas rather than part of the problem.

  William Cronon

  Environmental, Firsts, Ordinary

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• Such is the privilege of genius; it perceives, it seizes relations where vulgar eyes see only isolated facts.

  Francois Arago

  Eye, Science, Genius

  François Arago (1859). “Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men: The history of my youth, an autobiography of Francis Arago.Bailly.Herschel.Laplace.Joseph Fourier.-ser. 2 Carnot.Malus.Fresnel.Thomas Young.James Watt”, p.412

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• The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with Gods or Geniuses, calling them by the names and adorning them with the properties of woods, rivers, mountains, lakes, cities, nations, and whatever their enlarged & numerous senses could perceive.

  William Blake

  Cities, Names, Rivers

  William Blake (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Blake (Illustrated)”, p.204, Delphi Classics

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• The difficulty is to learn to perceive with your whole body, not with just your eyes and reason. The world becomes a stream of tremendously rapid, unique events. So you must trim your body to make it a good receptor. The body is an awareness; and it must be treated impeccably.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Eye, Unique, Events

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• Light is my inspiration. My photographic images search for dimensions that words cannot touch- the result of intense responses to personal experiences. I do not wish to "record," but rather to touch upon the illusive meanings which I perceive and try to comprehend in this limitless universe.

  Ruth Bernhard

  Photography, Inspiration, Light

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• Reverence is a perception of the soul. Reverence is a natural aspect of authentic empowerment because the soul reveres all of Life. When the personality is aligned with the soul, it cannot perceive life except with reverence. Approaching life with reverence is a step toward moving the personality into alignment with the soul because it brings an aspect of the soul directly into the physical environment.

  Gary Zukav

  Moving, Personality, Soul

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• You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom.

  Mark Twain

  Travel, Society, Tourism

  Mark Twain (1976). “Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume II: (1877-1883)”, p.318, Univ of California Press

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• Nuclear energy people perceive the greenhouse effect as a fresh wind blowing at their back.

  Stewart Udall

  Wind Blowing, People, Energy

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• Worry is a weighty monster with poisoned tentacles. It clutches at us, grabs at our minds, steals our breath, our will. It lurks. It pounces. It colors how we perceive the world.

  Mary E. DeMuth

  Color, Worry, Mind

  Mary E DeMuth (2012). “Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus”, p.46, Thomas Nelson

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• We angels are misconceived in the human world. People perceive us as kindly and bountiful; when, in truth, we are about as fluffy, as gentle, as yielding, as rattlesnakes.

  Rebecca Lim

  Angel, People, World

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• Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do not perceive ourselves to be sick, renders us more hard to be cured.

  Seneca the Younger

  Sick, Disease, Facts

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• Minds that have nothing to confer Find little to perceive.

  William Wordsworth

  Mind, Littles

  William Wordsworth (1849). “The poetical works of William Wordsworth”, p.167

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