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• Hereby perceive we the love of God, because He laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren." How often I think of that 'ought.' No sugary sentiment there. Just the stern, glorious trumpet call, OUGHT. But can words tell the joy buried deep within? Mine cannot. It laughs at words.

  Amy Carmichael

  Inspiration, Thinking, Laughing

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• The motive that impels modern reason to know must be described as the desire to conquer and dominate. For the Greek philosophers and the Fathers of the church, knowing meant something different: it meant knowing in wonder. By knowing or perceiving one participates in the life of the other. Here knowing does not transform the counterpart into the property of the knower; the knower does not appropriate what he knows. On the contrary, he is transformed through sympathy, becoming a participant in what he perceives.

  Jürgen Moltmann

  Father, Knowing, Greek

  "The Dance Between God and Humanity: Reading the Bible Today as the People of God". Book by Bruce K. Waltke, 2013.

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• All that we "know" is what registers on our brains, so what you perceive (your individual reality-tunnel) is made up of nothing but thoughts—as Sir Humphrey Davy noted when self-experimenting with nitrous oxide in 1819, and as Buddha noticed by sitting alone until all his social imprints atrophied and dropped away.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Reality, Tunnels, Self

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• Vision is the ability to see God’s presence, to perceive God’s power, to focus on God’s plan in spite of the obstacles.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Focus, Vision, God's Plan

  Charles R. Swindoll (2007). “Wisdom for the Way: Wise Words for Busy People”, p.143, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• We don’t like to think of ourselves as prey—it is a lessening thought—but the truth is that in our arrogance and so-called knowledge we forget that we are not unique. We are part of nature as much as other animals, and some animals—sharks, fever-bearing mosquitoes, wolves and bear, to name but a few—perceive us as a food source, a meat supply, and simply did not get the memo about how humans are superior. It can be shocking, humbling, painful, very edifying and sometimes downright fatal to run into such an animal.

  Gary Paulsen

  Running, Animal, Unique

  Gary Paulsen (2003). “Brian's Hunt”, p.65, Wendy Lamb Books

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• There is no one truth. There’s only what happened, based on how you perceive it.

  Jodi Picoult

  Happened

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• Hearts, you say? You Humans are always so quick to speak of such things. As though you carry your hearts in the very palms of your hands. But this eye of mine perceives all. There is nothing that it overlooks. If this eye cannot see a thing, then it does not exist. That is the assumption under which I have always fought. What is this "heart"? If I tear open that chest of yours, will I see it there? If I smash open that skull of yours, will I see it there?

  Tite Kubo

  Heart, Eye, Hands

  "Fictional character: Ulquiorra Cifer". "Bleach" manga, Chapter 317, page 20, 2001 - 2016.

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• I don't think the world is the way we like to think it is. I don't think it's one solid world, but many, thousands upon thousands of them--as many as there are people--because each person perceives the world in his or her own way; each lives in his or her own world. Sometimes they connect, for a moment, or more rarely, for a lifetime, but mostly we are alone, each living in our own world, suffering our small deaths.

  Charles de Lint

  Thinking, World Suffering, People

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• I didn't believe it could be so monstrous. It's wrong to be so absorbed in divine law as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men tough that unknown thing?

  Victor Hugo

  Believe, Men, Law

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• I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Faith

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1979). “Emile: Or, On Education”, p.277, Basic Books

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• What you will see is love coming out of the trees, love coming out of the sky, love coming out of the light. You will perceive love from everything around you. This is the state of bliss.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Light, Sky, Tree

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• I am not insane," he said. "A woman of your highly advanced intellect ought to be able to perceive that I am in love. With you. I wish you had told me. It was deuced embarrassing to find it out from your *brother*.

  Loretta Chase

  Brother, Love You, Wish

  Loretta Chase (2005). “Mr. Impossible”, p.363, Penguin

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• Okay, you were probably taught there are five senses," he said. "We see, hear, touch, smell and taste. But how do we know those are the only five? What are the senses that we don't have? What are we failing to perceive?

  Louis Sachar

  Smell, Five Senses, Taste

  Louis Sachar (2011). “The Cardturner”, p.68, A&C Black

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• We may be surrounded by some greater reality, to which we are oblivious. And even if we could somehow perceive it in some entirely new way, it is extremely doubtful we would be able to comprehend what we perceived.

  Louis Sachar

  Reality, Would Be, May

  Louis Sachar (2011). “The Cardturner”, p.68, A&C Black

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• When one sense perceives the hidden, the invisible world becomes apparent to the whole.

  Rumi

  World, Invisible, Whole

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• It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. But is it not stirring to understand how the world actually works — that white light is made of colors, that color is the way we perceive the wavelengths of light, that transparent air reflects light, that in so doing it discriminates among the waves, and that the sky is blue for the same reason that the sunset is red? It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little bit about it.

  Carl Sagan

  Passion, Sunset, Science

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.154, Ballantine Books

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• It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.

  Charles Darwin

  Honesty, Ignorance, Humility

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.22, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• There is only one reality - the reality knowable to reason. And if man does not choose to perceive it, there is nothing else for him to perceive; if it is not of this world that he is conscious, then he is not conscious at all

  Nathaniel Branden

  Reality, Men, Doe

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden (1964). “The virtue of selfishness: a new concept of egoism”, Signet

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• If there’s a thing, a scene, maybe, an image that you want to see real bad, that you need to see but it doesn’t exist in the world around you, at least not in the form that you envision, then you create it so that you can look at it and have it around, or show it to other people who wouldn’t have imagined it because they perceive reality in a more narrow, predictable way. And that’s it. That’s all an artist does.

  Tom Robbins

  Real, Artist, People

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.206, Bantam

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• Most of us love a non-self, or something extrinsic and apart from our inner life; but a mother's love during the time she is a flesh-and-blood ciborium is not for a non-self but for one that is her very self, a perfect example of charity and love which hardly perceives a separation. Motherhood then becomes a kind of priesthood. She brings God to man by preparing the flesh in which the soul will be implanted; she brings man to God in offering the child back again to the Creator.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Mother, Children, Men

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• I will use big words from time to time, the meanings of which I may only vaguely perceive, in hopes such cupidity will send you scampering to your dictionary: I will call such behavior 'public service'.

  Harlan Ellison

  Use, May, Behavior

  Harlan Ellison (1989). “Harlan Ellison's watching”

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• It is amazing that when someone else spouts the nonsense you yourself believe you can readily perceive it as nonsense

  Philip K. Dick

  Believe, Believe You Can, Nonsense

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “The VALIS Trilogy”, p.233, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is a condition of monsters that they do not perceive themselves as such. The dragon, you know, hunkered in the village devouring maidens, heard the townsfolk cry 'Monster!' and looked behind him.

  Laini Taylor

  Dragons, Monsters, Village

  "Daughter of Smoke and Bone". Book by Laini Taylor, September 27, 2011.

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• I do not often laugh, sir, as you may perceive by the air of my countenance; but nevertheless, I retain the privilege of laughing when I please.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Air, Laughing, May

  Alexandre Dumas (1853). “The three musketeers, tr. by W. Robson”, p.5

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• Not evil. Moronic, which isn't quite the same thing. Evil presupposes a moral decision, intention, and some forethought. A moron or a lout, however, doesn't stop to think or reason. He acts on instinct, like a stable animal, convinced he's doing good, that he's always right, and sanctimoniously proud to go around f***ing up ... anyone he perceives to be different from himself, be it because of skin color, creed, language, nationality, or ... leisure habits. What the world needs is more thoroughly evil people and fewer borderline pigheads.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Animal, Thinking, Skin Color

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