1,601 Quotes About Perception
- Author Kara Dalkey
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Why would our brains have this capacity to sense the oneness of the universe, a sense that can be induced in many ways, even technological, if that capacity did not reflect an external reality?
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- Author Cruce Stark
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According to this model, human beings are, at least in one aspect, sensation-receiving machines; and although our receptory apparatus is competent to select and organize outward stimuli within the narrow range necessary for physical survival within our environment, it does not necessarily tell us very much about the nature of that environment. People, in other words, have little access to the possible world existing beyond their sensations.
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- Author A.A. Milne
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Whatever his weight in pounds and ounces, he always seems bigger because of his bounces.
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- Author Soetsu Yanagi
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One's assessment of an object must be free and unhampered, with nothing between you and the object. You must look directly at it. To decide that a particular piece must be valuable because it has a particular [artist's signature] seal is weak and demeaning. Your assessment only gains meaning when you look at the object directly, free and unfettered.
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- Author Jorge Luis Borges
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Each moment we live exists, not the imaginary combination of these moments.A New Refutation of Time
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- Author Ludwik Fleck
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We have even lost any critical insight we may once have had into the organic basis of perception, taking for granted the basic fact that a normal person has two eyes. We have nearly ceased to consider this as even knowledge at all and are no longer conscious of our own participation in perception. Instead, we feel a complete passivity in the face of a power that is independent of us; a power we call "existence" or "reality.
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- Author Matthew Donnelly
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Your perception is your habitual perspective. The way you consciously choose to see life on a regular basis. The moment that you are aware of your perspective and detach to see things from a different point of view (Even SLIGHTLY) is the moment that your entire complexity from within you changes.
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- Author Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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What is seen or heard is a product of seeing or hearing.
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- Author Amy Neftzger
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Magic is always there. Sometimes it just takes an artist to find it and show the rest of us where to look.
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