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"I see a green tree. And to me it is green. And you would call the tree green also. And we would agree on this. But is the colour you see as green the same colour I see as green?"
"Emotional intelligence grows through perception. Look around at your present situation and observe it through the level of feeling."
"Space and time are not objects of perception, but qualities of awareness"
"The real change that paintings undergo is in the perceptions of the viewer."
"It would be a great reform in politics if perception could be made to spread as easily and as rapidly as foolishness."
"Our life is not so much threatened as our perception. Ghostlike we glide through nature, and should not know our place again."
"Yeah. Iʼve always felt this way. I mean weʼre born alone, we die alone. And while weʼre here we are absolutely, completely sealed in our own bodies. Really weird. Kinda freaks me out to think about it. We can only experience the outside world through our own slanted perception of it. Who knows what youʼre really like. I just see what I think youʼre like."
"Some of the albums I like best in the whole world are considered psychedelic albums. A psychedelic album is an album that when you put it on, if you listen to both sides, when it's over, your perceptions have been changed and I think that our record can do that."
"Watching I watch myself, what I see is my creation as though entering through my eyes perception is conception into an eye more crystal clear water of thoughts, what I watch watches me, I am the creation of what I see"
"Money itself isn't lost or made, it's simply transferred from one perception to another. This painting here. I bought it 10 years ago for 60 thousand dollars. I could sell it today for 600. The illusion has become real and the more real it becomes, the more desperately they want it."
"The liberation cannot be reached but by means of the perception of the identity of the individual spirit with the universal spirit."
"There is nothing more shocking than to see assertion and approval dashing ahead of cognition and perception."
"Minds fettered by this doctrine no longer inquire concerning a proposition whether it is attested by sufficient evidence, but whether it accords with Scripture; they do not search for facts as such, but for facts that will bear out their doctrine. It is easy to see that this mental habit blunts not only the perception of truth, but the sense of truthfulness, and that the man whose faith drives him into fallacies treads close upon the precipice of falsehood."
"Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom."
"For everything outside the phenomenal world, language can only be used allusively, but never even approximately in a comparative way, since, corresponding as it does to the phenomenal world, it is concerned only with property and its relations."
"The organ of perception acts more readily than judgment."
"There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no experience in others can equal."
"The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference, are exercised only in making a choice. He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice."
"I can hear those glances that you think are silent."
"Cooperation with others. Perception, experience, tenacity. Know when to lead and when to follow."
