William James Quotes About Perception

Quotes about: Perception

• Thoughts become perception, perception becomes reality. Alter your thoughts, alter your reality.

  William James

  Reality, Perception

• Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them.

  William James

  Respect, Struggle, Adversity

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.674, Courier Corporation

• It is as if there were in the human consciousness a sense of reality, a feeling of objective presence, a perception of what we may call something there, more deep and more general than any of the special and particular senses by which the current psychology supposes existent realities to be originally revealed.

  William James

  Reality, Psychology, Feelings

  William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.58, Courier Corporation

• Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation. There is in the living act of perception always something that glimmers and twinkles and will not be caught, and for which reflection comes too late.

  William James

  Philosophy, Reflection, Perception

  William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature”, p.149, Xist Publishing

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