"The secret of the illusoriness is in the necessity of a succession of moods or objects. Gladly we would anchor, but the anchorageis quicksand."
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"Since everything in nature answers to a moral power, if any phenomenon remains brute and dark, it is that the corresponding faculty in the observer is not yet active."
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"Do you love me? Means at last do you see the same truth I see? If you do, we are happy together; but when presently one of us passes into the perception of a new truth, we are divorced and the force of all nature cannot hold us to each other."
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"How can we speak of the action of the mind under any divisions, as of its knowledge, of its ethics, of its works, and so forth, since it melts will into perception, knowledge into act? Each becomes the other. Itself alone is."
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"The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men."
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"My life is superficial, takes no root in the deep world; I ask, When shall I die, and be relieved of the responsibility of seeinga Universe which I do not use? I wish to exchange this flash-of-lightning faith for continuous daylight, this fever-glow for a benign climate."
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"Who heeds the waste abyss of possibility? The ocean is everywhere the same, but it has no character until seen with the shore or the ship."
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"No man has a right perception of any truth, who has not been reacted on by it, so as to be ready to be its martyr."
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"The senses interfere everywhere, and mix their own structure with all they report of."
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"Our perceptions of truth are built around what is practical, not what is true. Even the smartest human brain doesn't have the capacity for discerning true facts. That's why so many of us settle for scientific facts. It's the best we can do."
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"Whatever people do, they do for a reason and they think that it meets their needs....by their perception."
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"You and I have that same power at our disposal every moment of the day. At the moment, the questions that we ask ourselves can shape our perception of who we are, what we're capable of, and what we're willing to do to achieve our dreams."
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"The place one's in, though, doesn't make any contribution to peace of mind: it's the spirit that makes everything agreeable to oneself."
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"Expectations are the engines of our perceptions."
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"In your system of reality you are learning what mental energy is, and how to use it. You do this by constantly transforming your thought and emotions into physical form. You are supposed to get a clear picture of your inner development by perceiving the exterior environment. What seems to be a perception, an objective concrete event independent from you, is instead the materialization of your own inner emotions, energy, and mental environment."
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"You expand your consciousness, your ideas, your perceptions. You break away from self-adopted restrictions. You grow as you learn to step aside from limiting conceptions and dogmas."
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"I'm walking this walk and my life has nothing to do with my perception of the world. It's all God! How do I function within His plan?"
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"World views are social constructions and they channel the search for facts. But facts are found and knowledge progresses, however fitfully."
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"The writer's original perception of a character or characters may be as erroneous as the reader's."
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"You can actually alter a person's perception when they're that young. I mean, it can affect them in a very positive way."
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