Aristotle Quotes, Perception Quotes, Genius Quotes

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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The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.

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There is nothing more shocking than to see assertion and approval dashing ahead of cognition and perception.

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Man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.

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The liberation cannot be reached but by means of the perception of the identity of the individual spirit with the universal spirit.

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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.

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We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.

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Monks, we who look at the whole and not just the part, know that we too are systems of interdependence, of feelings, perceptions, thoughts, and consciousness all interconnected. Investigating in this way, we come to realize that there is no me or mine in any one part, just as a sound does not belong to any one part of the lute.

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Do what you know and perception is converted into character.

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Things which we see are not by themselves what we see ... It remains completely unknown to us what the objects may be by themselves and apart from the receptivity of our senses. We know nothing but our manner of perceiving them.

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The feeling of being happy or unhappy rarely depends on our absolute state, but on our perception of the situation, on our capacity to be satisfied with what we have.

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The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.

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We must remember that we do not observe nature as it actually exists, but nature exposed to our methods of perception. The theories determine what we can or cannot observe...Reality is an illusion, albeit a persistent one.

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Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world.

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The senses interfere everywhere, and mix their own structure with all they report of.

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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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No one has ever seen a Republican mass meeting that was devoid of the perception of the ludicrous.

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Like strange mechanical grotesques, Making fantastic arabesques, The shadows raced across the blind.

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Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.

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Perceptions change with time and you can't rush it, in my judgment.

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