Perception Quotes - Page 33

• The unlived life is not worth examining.

  Old Tom Morris

  Life Is, Miscellaneous, Examining

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• The art of watching has become mere skill at rapid apperception and understanding of continuously changing visual images. The younger generation has acquired this cinematic perception to an amazing degree.

  Johan Huizinga

  Art, Skills, Understanding

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• When you change your thoughts and perception, you change the way you live.

  Rita Zahara

  Inspirational, Way, Change Your Thoughts

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• The light is there, and colors surround us. However, if there were no light nor colors in our own eye, we wouldn't perceive such things outside of us.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Eye, Light, Color

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• Most of us human beings tend to be parochial in our perceptions. What happens is that we have a very limited and narrow view of our self interest and do not adequately weight the price that has to be paid on the other side for any of these measures we are promoting.

  Alan Borovoy

  Self, Views, Weight

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• ... a novel survives because of its basic truthfulness, its having within it something general and universal, and a quality of imaginative perception which applies just as much now as it did in the fifty or hundred or two hundred years since the novel came to life.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Truth, Years, Two

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• A quick and sound judgment, good common sense, kind feeling, and an instinctive perception of character, in these are the elements of what is called tact, which has so much to do with acceptability and success in life.

  Charles Simmons

  Character, Common Sense, Feelings

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• As a mode of perception that often becomes a style of life, paranoia weaves around the vulnerable self or group an air-tight metaphysic and world view. Paranoia is an antireligious mysticism based on the feeling or perception that the world in general, and others in particular, are against me or us. Reality is perceived as hostile. By contrast, the religious mystic experiences the ground of being as basically friendly to the deepest needs of the self. That which is unknown, strange, or beyond our comprehension is with and for rather than against us.

  Sam Keen

  Religious, Reality, Air

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• In tension you cannot perceive; in laxity you cannot perceive. Only if you are intense and relaxed, you perceive everything just the way it is.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Way, Clarity

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• When the very source of creation is within you, all the solutions are within you. The problems are just created by you.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Clarity, Problem

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• The designation of the locality in one excludes the appearances narrated by the rest; the determination of time in another leaves no space for the narratives of his fellow-evangelists; the enumeration of a third is given without any regard to the events reported by his predecessors; lastly, among several appearances recounted by various narrators, each claims to be the last, and yet has nothing in common with the others. Hence nothing but wilful blindness can prevent the perception that no one of the narrators knew and presupposed what another records.

  David Friedrich Strauss

  Determination, Space, Atheism

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• A man needs no arguments to make him discern and approve what is beautiful: it strikes at first sight, and attracts without a reason. And as this beauty is found in the shape and form of corporeal things, so also is there analogous to it a beauty of another kind, an order, a symmetry, and comeliness in the moral world. And as the eye perceiveth the one, so the mind doth by a certain interior sense perceive the other, which sense, talent, or faculty, is ever quickest and purest in the noblest minds.

  George Berkeley

  Beauty, Beautiful, Eye

  George Berkeley (1752). “Alciphron: Or, The Minute Philosopher. In Seven Dialogues Containing an Apology for the Christian Religion Against Those who are Called Free-thinkers”, p.112

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• It seems that certain transcendental realities emit rays to which the masses are sensitive. That is how, for example, when an event takes place, when at the front an army is in danger, or defeated, or victorious, the rather obscure news which the cultivated man does not quite understand, excite in the masses an emotion which surprises him and in which, once the experts have informed him of the actual military situation, he recognizes the populace's perception of that "aura" surrounding great events and visible for hundreds of kilometers.

  Marcel Proust

  Military, War, Army

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• The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music.

  John Drinkwater

  Expression, Musician, Poet

  John Drinkwater (1922). “The Lyric: An Essay”, p.33, Library of Alexandria

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• The searcher's eye Not seldom finds more than he wished to find.

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Eye, Searchers

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• They tell you that a tree is only a combination of chemical elements. I prefer to believe that God created it, and that it is inhabited by a nymph.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Believe, Nymphs, Tree

  "Renoir: My Father". Book by Jean Renoir, p. 137, 2001.

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• True vision is always twofold. It involves emotional comprehension as well as physical perception. Yet how rarely we have either. We generally only glance at an object long enough to tag it with a name.

  Ross Parmenter

  Emotional, Names, Long

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• The belief in God is not therefore based on the perception of design in nature. Belief in design in nature is based upon the belief in God. Things are as they are whether there is a God or not. Logically, to believe in design one must start with God. He, or it, is not a conclusion but a datum. You may begin by assuming a creator, and then say he did this or that; but you cannot logically say that because certain things exist, therefore there is a God who made them. God is an assumption, not a conclusion. And it is an assumption that explains nothing.

  Chapman Cohen

  God, Believe, Data

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• It is possible for every human being to be blissful, if you are willing to pay a little attention to how this human mechanism functions.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Attention, Littles

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• The difference between happiness is no-where and happiness is now-here has something to do with the event, and everything to do with how you see the event. Your perception is key.

  Robert Holden

  Attitude, Keys, Differences

  Robert Holden (2011). “Happiness Now!: Timeless Wisdom for Feeling Good Fast”, p.5, Hay House, Inc

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• I believe that both art and the human striving for cognitive comprehension are manifest forms of the grand game in which nothing more is stipulated than the game's rules; both art and actively solicited perceptions are but special cases of the recurring creative act to which we owe our existence.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Art, Believe, Games

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• I can hear those glances that you think are silent.

  Jean Racine

  Communication, Thinking, Silent

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• What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life by him who interests his heart in every thing, and who, having eyes to see, what time and chance are perpetually holding out to him as he journeyeth on his way, misses nothing he can fairly lay his hands on.

  Laurence Sterne

  Adventure, Eye, Heart

  Laurence Sterne (1832). “The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman”, p.260

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• You are a piece of creation. If you go against any other piece of creation, you are unknowingly going against yourself.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Pieces, Clarity

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• If you strive to make yourself in such a way that nobody can help loving you, life will blossom, everything will yield.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Yield, Loving You

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