Immanuel Kant
Philosopher
"All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason."
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Jim Morrison
Musician, Poet
"There are things known and things unknown and in between are The Doors."
Nikola Tesla
Inventor, Electrical Engineer
"To know each other we must reach beyond the sphere of our sense perceptions."
Galileo Galilei
Astronomer, Physicist
"Where the senses fail us, reason must step in."
Alan Watts
Philosopher, Writer
"Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence."
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"The older you get, the more you learn to see what you've been taught to see. When you're a kid, you see what's there."
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"Remember that your perception of the world is a reflection of your state of consciousness. You are not separate from it, and there is no objective world out there. Every moment, your consciousness creates the world that you inhabit."
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"All perception is colored by emotion."
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"It is possible that I am dreaming right now and that all of my perceptions are false."
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"I'm not interested in trying to work on people's perceptions. I am who I am, and if you don't take the time to learn about that, then your perception is going to be your problem."
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"The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar."
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"Thoughts become perception, perception becomes reality. Alter your thoughts, alter your reality."
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"Cosmic time is the same for everyone, but human time differs with each person. Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way."
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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"
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"A miracle is a shift in perception. The moment that we choose to perceive our life with love, we can create miraculous change."
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"My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind."
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"It is entirely possible that behind the perception of our senses, worlds are hidden of which we are unaware."
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"The whole world is simply my story, projected back to me on the screen of my own perception. All of it."
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"What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them."
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"But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based."
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"Out of the multitude of our sense experiences we take, mentally and arbitrarily, certain repeatedly occurring complexes of sense impression (partly in conjunction with sense impressions which are interpreted as signs for sense experiences of others), and we attribute to them a meaning the meaning of the bodily object."
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"Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness - and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all, that is what I was at nineteen and twenty."
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"There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by one's nervous system and the specific environment of our planetary existence."
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"There is an art of seeing things as they are: without naming, without being caught in a network of words, without thinking interfering with perception."
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"No one can read the history of astronomy without perceiving that Copernicus, Newton, Laplace, are not new men, or a new kind of men, but that Thales, Anaximenes, Hipparchus, Empodocles, Aristorchus, Pythagorus, Oenipodes, had anticipated them."
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