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Perceiving Quotes (page 17)

Philip K. Dick quote: "It is amazing that when someone else spouts the nonsense you..."
It is amazing that when someone else spouts the nonsense you yourself believe you can readily perceive it as nonsense Philip K. Dick
All that we "know" is what registers on our brains, so what you perceive (your individual reality-tunnel) is made up of nothing but thoughts—as Sir Humphrey Davy noted when self-experimenting with nitrous oxide in 1819, and as Buddha noticed by sitting alone until all his social imprints atrophied and dropped away. Robert Anton Wilson
William Shakespeare quote: "This thou perceiv'st, which makes thy love more strong: To..."
This thou perceiv'st, which makes thy love more strong: To love that well which thou must leave ere long. William Shakespeare
Rudyard Kipling quote: "You perceive, do you not, that our national fairy tales..."
You perceive, do you not, that our national fairy tales reflect the inmost desires of the Briton and the Gaul? Rudyard Kipling
It is not given to us to grasp the truth, which is identical with the divine, directly. We perceive it only in reflection, in example and symbol, in singular and related appearances. It meets us as a kind of life which is incomprehensible to us, and yet we cannot free ourselves from the desire to comprehend it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Resolved, to study the Scriptures so steadily, constantly and frequently, as that I may find, and plainly perceive myself to grow in the knowledge of the same. Jonathan Edwards
And many years later, as an adult student of history, Knecht was to perceive more distinctly that history cannot come into being without the substance and the dynamism of this sinful world of egoism and instinctuality, and that even such sublime creations as the Order were born in this cloudy torrent and sooner or later will be swallowed up by it again...Nor was this ever merely an intellectual problem for him. Rather, it engaged his innermost self more than any other problem, and he felt it... Herman Hesse
Jean-Jacques Rousseau quote: "I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I..."
I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Mary McCarthy quote: "There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been..."
There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without noticing. Mary McCarthy
I began to perceive more deeply than it has ever yet been stated, the trembling immateriality, the mistlike transience, of this seemingly so solid body in which we walk attired. Robert Louis Stevenson
Because there is no cosmic point to the life that each of us perceives on this distant bit of dust at galaxy's edge, all the more reason for us to maintain in proper balance what we have here. Because there is nothing else. Nothing. This is it. And quite enough, all in all. Gore Vidal
the life of a poet lies not merely in the finite language-dance of expression but in the nearly infinite combinations of perception and memory combined with the sensitivity of what is perceived and remembered Dan Simmons
Once I sought out a celebrated ethnologist, and amused him with peculiar questions regarding the ancient Philistine legend of Dagon, the Fish-God; but soon perceiving that he was hopelessly conventional, I did not press my inquiries. H. P. Lovecraft
We know the major conditions wherein this large populace may turn upon its keepers - One: When they find a leader. This is the most volatile threat to the powerful; they must retain control of leaders. Two: When the populace recognises its chains. Keep the populace blind and unquestioning. Three: When the populace perceives a hope of escape from bondage. They must never even believe that escape is possible! Frank Herbert
My noble father, I do perceive here a divided duty. To you I am bound for life and education. My life and education both do learn me How to respect you. You are the lord of my duty, I am hitherto your daughter. But here’s my husband, And so much duty as my mother showed To you, preferring you before her father, So much I challenge that I may profess Due to the Moor my lord. William Shakespeare

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