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• Such is the privilege of genius; it perceives, it seizes relations where vulgar eyes see only isolated facts.

  Francois Arago

  Eye, Science, Genius

  François Arago (1859). “Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men: The history of my youth, an autobiography of Francis Arago.Bailly.Herschel.Laplace.Joseph Fourier.-ser. 2 Carnot.Malus.Fresnel.Thomas Young.James Watt”, p.412

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• The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with Gods or Geniuses, calling them by the names and adorning them with the properties of woods, rivers, mountains, lakes, cities, nations, and whatever their enlarged & numerous senses could perceive.

  William Blake

  Cities, Names, Rivers

  William Blake (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Blake (Illustrated)”, p.204, Delphi Classics

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• The difficulty is to learn to perceive with your whole body, not with just your eyes and reason. The world becomes a stream of tremendously rapid, unique events. So you must trim your body to make it a good receptor. The body is an awareness; and it must be treated impeccably.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Eye, Unique, Events

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• Light is my inspiration. My photographic images search for dimensions that words cannot touch- the result of intense responses to personal experiences. I do not wish to "record," but rather to touch upon the illusive meanings which I perceive and try to comprehend in this limitless universe.

  Ruth Bernhard

  Photography, Inspiration, Light

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• Reverence is a perception of the soul. Reverence is a natural aspect of authentic empowerment because the soul reveres all of Life. When the personality is aligned with the soul, it cannot perceive life except with reverence. Approaching life with reverence is a step toward moving the personality into alignment with the soul because it brings an aspect of the soul directly into the physical environment.

  Gary Zukav

  Moving, Personality, Soul

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• You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom.

  Mark Twain

  Travel, Society, Tourism

  Mark Twain (1976). “Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume II: (1877-1883)”, p.318, Univ of California Press

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• Nuclear energy people perceive the greenhouse effect as a fresh wind blowing at their back.

  Stewart Udall

  Wind Blowing, People, Energy

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• Worry is a weighty monster with poisoned tentacles. It clutches at us, grabs at our minds, steals our breath, our will. It lurks. It pounces. It colors how we perceive the world.

  Mary E. DeMuth

  Color, Worry, Mind

  Mary E DeMuth (2012). “Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus”, p.46, Thomas Nelson

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• We angels are misconceived in the human world. People perceive us as kindly and bountiful; when, in truth, we are about as fluffy, as gentle, as yielding, as rattlesnakes.

  Rebecca Lim

  Angel, People, World

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• Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do not perceive ourselves to be sick, renders us more hard to be cured.

  Seneca the Younger

  Sick, Disease, Facts

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• Minds that have nothing to confer Find little to perceive.

  William Wordsworth

  Mind, Littles

  William Wordsworth (1849). “The poetical works of William Wordsworth”, p.167

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• I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.

  Ben Jonson

  Father, Men, Parent

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1816). “Memoirs of Jonson, &c. Every man in his humour”, p.18

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• A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.

  Kenneth Tynan

  Drama, Criticism, Theatre

  'Tynan Right and Left' (1967) foreword

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• When the eye fails to find beauty-alias solace-it commands the body to create it, or, failing that, adjusts itself to perceive virtue in ugliness.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Eye, Body, Failing

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• Looking out of my window this lovely spring morning I see an azalea in full bloom. No, no! I do not see that; though that is the only way I can describe what I see. That is a proposition, a sentence, a fact; but what I perceive is not proposition, sentence, fact, but only an image which I make intelligible in part by means of a statement of fact. This statement is abstract; but what I see is concrete.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Morning, Spring, Mean

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• There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and exquisite mystical experience.

  Bernard Malamud

  Dark, Self, Mystical Experiences

  Bernard Malamud (2003). “The Natural: A Novel”, p.94, Macmillan

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• I think it is more a cautiousness that protects me from enthusiasm about things. I tend not to get excited. People perceive it as a scowl, which is fair enough.

  Jack Dee

  Thinking, People, Cautiousness

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• Old men grasp more at life than babies, and leave it with a much worse grace than young people. It is because all their labours having been for this life, they perceive at last their trouble lost.

  Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

  Baby, Men, People

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• The more we learn about the wonders of our universe, the more clearly we are going to perceive the hand of God.

  Frank Borman

  Hands, Wonder, Universe

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• The more I see of life the more I perceive that only through solitary communion with nature can one gain an idea of its richness and meaning.

  Cyril Connolly

  Nature, Ideas, Gains

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• If people perceive themselves as having very little opportunities to be fulfilled, then it cheapens their life and outlook. The solution is to reverse it; make sure they know opportunities abound.

  Michael Lee-Chin

  Opportunity, People, Littles

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• All living beings, not just animals, but plants and microorganisms, perceive. To survive, an organic being must perceive - it must seek, or at least recognize, food and avoid environmental danger.

  Lynn Margulis

  Animal, Environmental, Plant

  Lynn Margulis, Dorion Sagan (1995). “What is Life?”, p.27, Univ of California Press

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• Do you think it's possible that things that seem to be discrete in three dimensions might all be part of the same bigger object in four dimensions? ...What if humanity- that collective noun we so often employ- really is, at a higher level, a singular noun? What it what we perceive in three dimensions as seven billion individual human beings are really all just aspects of one giant being?

  Robert J. Sawyer

  Thinking, Humanity, What If

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• Once we perceive that it is Judaism which is the root cause of antisemitism, otherwise irrational or inexplicable aspects of antisemitism become rationally explicable...Only something representing a threat to the core values, allegiances and beliefs of others could cause such universal, deep and lasting hatred. This Judaism has done.

  Dennis Prager

  Roots, Hatred, Done

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• With some CGI, I think the brain slightly perceives that things aren't real. There's no gravity, the light's not quite real, the shadows aren't quite real.

  Nick Park

  Real, Thinking, Light

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