Perception Quotes - Page 40

• Thus the negative perception is the triumph of consciousness.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Triumph, Negative, Consciousness

  Russell L. Kleinbach, Karl Marx, Alfred North Whitehead (1982). “Marx via process: Whitehead's potential contribution to Marxian social theory”

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• Our perception of space alters the space. It is consciousness that finds meanings in all spaces

  Tarthang Tulku

  Space, Consciousness, Find Me

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• Everything we see is an illusion. Even our perceptions of truth are illusory, illusory in the sense they're not complete.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Illusion

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• Am I a fruitcake? I don't know. Perception is reality, so if I sit here and say, "I'm not a fruitcake, I'm a lemon cake," it doesn't matter. What you see me as in your world is what I am; it doesn't matter what I am - do you know what I mean? To me, I know what my real problems are - and they're certainly not about cake. And that's just the way it is.

  Macy Gray

  Real, Mean, Cake

  "It's a Macy, Macy world" by Tim Cooper, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2001.

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• The real purveyors of the news are artists, for artists are the ones who infuse fact with perception, emotion, and appreciation...We are beginning to realize that emotions and imagination are more potent in shaping public sentiment and opinion than information and reason.

  John Dewey

  Appreciation, Real, Artist

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• After the enormous success of All About my Mother, all the awards and everything, I wanted to start a movie in exactly the same place that I used to be before. I wanted to show that all of the success had not changed my perception.

  Pedro Almodovar

  Mother, Awards, Used

  Interview with Jose Arroyo, www.theguardian.com. July 31, 2002.

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• There is a common perception that compassion is, if not actually an impediment, at least irrelevant to professional life. Personally, I would argue that not only is it relevant, but that when compassion is lacking, our activities are in danger of becoming destructive. This is because when we ignore the question of the impact our actions have on others' well-being, inevitably we end up hurting them.

  Dalai Lama

  Hurt, Compassion, Impact

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• What could be a more Canadian way to indulge in the national preoccupation with perceptions - honest, hilarious, huffy or high-minded - of this country and its inhabitants?

  Norman Angell

  Country, Indulge In, Huffy

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• We call our intuition our sixth sense, but in reality it would be called our first sense, because it's rooted in quantum nature of reality. It was around long before our solar system and our planetary system were even formulated or even organized. It is at the basis of how our normal sensing works. So instead of being our sixth sense or even â€" using the parapsychological term â€" "extrasensory perception," it's not. It's at the basis of our perception, and that's the quantum world.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Reality, Long, Intuition

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Thoughts become perception, perception becomes reality. Alter your thoughts, alter your reality.

  William James

  Reality

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• I always feel like I can do anything. That's the main thing people are controlled by: thoughts and perceptions of yourself... If you're taught you can't do anything, you won't do anything

  Kanye West

  People, Taught, Feels

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• Reality is based on perception

  Geoff Thompson

  Reality

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• Being right is not too difficult. Your choose your perception. You select your information. You leave out what does not suit you. You drag in some general-purpose value words. You throw in a sneer or two about the opposition, and you are a fine fellow who made a fine speech.

  Edward de Bono

  Two, Suits You, Doe

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• The idea part is simple but the visual perception is complex.

  Sol LeWitt

  Simple, Ideas, Visuals

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• Hallucinogens are a value changer...like it or not, it changes your values, it opens up windows (doors of perception.)

  George Carlin

  Doors, Hallucinogens, Window

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• The artist's mission is to make the soul perceptible. Our scientific, materialist culture trains us to develop the eyes of outer perception. Visionary art encourages the development of our inner sight. To find the visionary realm, we use the intuitive inner eye: The eye of contemplation; the eye of the soul. All the inspiring ideas we have as artists originate here.

  Alex Grey

  Art, Eye, Sight

  Interview with Nina Pak, miroirmagazine.com. June 6, 2014.

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• Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.

  M. H. Abrams

  Thinking, Keys, Helping

  "Honored literary scholar M.H. Abrams continues his labors (of love)" by Linda Grace-Kobas, news.cornell.edu. June 11, 1999.

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• For me, spirit is the impulse towards life, the Eros in a person leaping forward, whereas soul refers to something possibly long.. suffering, where meanings are made, where there is a sense of this gathering of perceptions, that our death is not the most important thing, nor our life.

  Michael Leunig

  Art, Long, Soul

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• These days it's hard to look at a poodle without thinking what a good meal he would make.

  Steve Martin

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

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• No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Two, Principles

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Gage (1980). “Goethe on Art”, p.5, Univ of California Press

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• Funny, now I can see, how looks can be deceiving.

  Elvis Costello

  Looks, Deceiving, I Can

  Song: Painted From Memory, Album: Painted From Memory, 1998

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• I don't see people as groups, I see them as individuals.

  Tommy Lee Jones

  People, Groups, Individual

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• I'm sorry if my traumatized life is an inconvenience to you and your perfect existence.

  Neve Campbell

  Sorry, Perfect, Life Is

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• How the world perceives you is largely out of your control.

  Sheryl Crow

  World, Perceive

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• Just remember that nothing is as bad as it seems and nothing is as good as it sometimes appears.

  Troy Aikman

  Remember, Sometimes, Seems

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