Sense Perception Quotes - Page 2

• During long periods of history, the mode of human sense perception changes with humanity’s entire mode of existence. The manner in which human sense perception is organized, the medium in which it is accomplished, is determined not only by nature but by historical circumstances as well

  Walter Benjamin

  Long, Humanity, Historical

  Walter Benjamin (1968). “Illuminations”, p.232, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I can sometimes sit for two hours in a room with almost no thought. Just complete stillness. Sometimes when I go for walks, there's also complete stillness; there's no mental labeling of sense perceptions. There's simply a sense of awe or wonder or openness, and that's beautiful.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Beautiful, Two, Perception

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• Physiology is concerned with all those phenomena of life that present them selves to us in sense perception as bodily processes, and accordingly form part of that total environment which we name the external world.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Life, Self, Names

  Wilhelm Max Wundt (1969). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”

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• I don't know how to be like a Bill Murray or a Will Ferrell, these guys who know how to make a line funny just by, I don't know, some extra-sense perception. I only know character and emotion and real acting; that's all I know how to do.

  John C. Reilly

  Real, Character, Guy

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