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• I don't say that bodies like flint, which are commonly called inanimate, have perceptions and appetition; rather they have something of that sort in them, as worms are in cheese.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Body, Cheese, Worms

  Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (2015). “Leibniz: Philosophical Essays”, p.169, Hackett Publishing

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• There is, perhaps, one universal truth about all forms of human cognition: the ability to deal with knowledge is hugely exceeded by the potential knowledge contained in man's environment. To cope with this diversity, man's perception, his memory, and his thought processes early become governed by strategies for protecting his limited capacities from the confusion of overloading. We tend to perceive things schematically, for example, rather than in detail, or we represent a class of diverse things by some sort of averaged "typical instance.

  Jerome Bruner

  Memories, Men, Class

  Jerome Seymour Bruner (1979). “On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand”, p.65, Harvard University Press

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• Human paint, produce films and videos; they dance, dream and make music; they engage in political action, exchange goods, perform rituals, build houses start wars, act in plays, try to please patrons- and so on... They contain patterns, press the practitioners to "conform" and in this way mold their thought, their perception, their actions, and their discriminative abilities.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Dream, War, Play

  Paul Feyerabend (2001). “Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction Versus the Richness of Being”, p.28, University of Chicago Press

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• Intuitive cognition of a thing is cognition that enables us to know whether the thing exists or does not exist, in such a way that, if the thing exists, then the intellect immediately judges that it exists and evidently knows that it exists, unless the judgment happens to be impeded through the imperfection of this cognition.

  William of Ockham

  Judging, Imperfection, Intuition

  William (of Ockham), Philotheus Boehner (1990). “Philosophical Writings: A Selection”, p.115, Hackett Publishing

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• Since we want not emancipation from impulse but clarification of impulse, the duty of rhetoric is to bring together action and understanding into a whole that is greater than scientific perception.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Understanding, Together, Want

  Richard M. Weaver (1985). “The Ethics of Rhetoric”, p.24, Psychology Press

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• Make a point never go clear, it is great odds that a man whose habits and the bent of whose mind lie a contrary way, shall be unable to comprehend it. So weak a thing is reason in competition with inclination.

  George Berkeley

  Lying, Men, Odds

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• The secret of the illusoriness is in the necessity of a succession of moods or objects. Gladly we would anchor, but the anchorageis quicksand.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Change, Anchors, Secret

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1993). “Self-reliance, and Other Essays”, p.88, Courier Corporation

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Structure, Senses, Reports

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.484

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• Cooperation with others. Perception, experience, tenacity. Know when to lead and when to follow.

  Ming-Dao Deng

  Leadership, Cooperation, Tenacity

  Ming-Dao Deng (2013). “365 Tao: Daily Meditations”, p.30, Harper Collins

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• Once there is a distance between you and your thought process, a new freedom is born. With this freedom, a new perception arises.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Freedom, Distance, Born

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• Adolescents, for all their self-involvement, are emerging from the self-centeredness of childhood. Their perception of other people has more depth. They are better equipped at appreciating others' reasons for action, or the basis of others' emotions. But this maturity functions in a piecemeal fashion. They show more understanding of their friends, but not of their teachers.

  Terri E Apter

  Fashion, Teacher, Maturity

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• While we can learn or study techniques for almost anything we might want to accomplish, real understanding is not the mere accumulation of knowledge. Understanding cannot be realized by listening or reading about the realization of others. It must be achieved firsthand via substantive, direct perception in the moment.

  H. E Davey

  Wisdom, Real, Reading

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• Knowledge builds on the past and has its place. Wisdom is beyond time. It's the direct perception of reality as it is. And in this direct seeing of what is lies the potential of transformation-a transformation that is not merely a redecoration of the past but a transformation of humanity that embodies the eternally new.

  H. E Davey

  Lying, Past, Reality

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• Engineers, medical people, scientific people, have an obsession with solving the problems of reality, when actually ... once you reach a basic level of wealth in society, most problems are actually problems of perception.

  Rory Sutherland

  Motivation, Inspiration, Reality

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• The light by which we see in this world comes out from the soul of the observer. Wherever any noble sentiment dwelt, it made the faces and houses around to shine. Nay, the powers of this busy brain are miraculous and illimitable.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Light, House, Shining

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.241, University of Georgia Press

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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.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dark, Power, Answers

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.208, Harvard University Press

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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.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Responsibility, Roots, Wish

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.485

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• Esse est percipi, to be is to be perceived, said good old Berkeley; but, according to most philosophers, he was wrong. Yet, obviously, there are things for which the adage holds. Perception, trivially, to begin with. If elements of conscious awareness--pains, tickles, feelings of heat and cold, sensory qualia of colors, sounds, and the like--have any existence, it must consist in their being perceived by a subject.... This shows, of course, that such experiences are epiphenomenal, at least with respect to the physical world.

  Zeno Vendler

  Pain, Color, Feelings

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• Perception of ideas, rather than the storing of them, should be the aim of education.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Ideas, Aim Of Education, Should

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• People look at me, and they have a certain perception, and they slap a label on me. The guy you saw in a wrestling ring is not who I am.

  Dave Bautista

  Wrestling, Who I Am, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Don't try to change the world.
  First, change yourself or rather, your self-perception, and you find the world automatically corresponding to the level of your understanding.
  You will find that it has always been you who set the pace and depth of your experience by recognizing and honoring your true nature.

  Mooji

  Self, Understanding, Trying

  Mooji (2017). “White Fire: Spiritual Insights and Teachings of Advaita Zen Master Mooji”, p.381, New Harbinger Publications

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• The music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment. And I’m not willing to contribute my life’s work to an experiment that I don’t feel fairly compensates the writers, producers, artists, and creators of this music. And I just don’t agree with perpetuating the perception that music has no value and should be free.

  Taylor Swift

  Artist, Should, Spotify

  "Exclusive: Taylor Swift on Being Pop's Instantly Platinum Wonder... And Why She's Paddling Against the Streams". Interview with Chris Willman, www.yahoo.com. November 6, 2014.

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• Value is a perception not a calculation.  Value is something people feel, not something we tell them they get

  Simon Sinek

  People, Feels, Calculations

  FaceBook post by Simon Sinek from Jan 15, 2015

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• One thing people often want me to talk about is my public love life. When it comes to my love life, the perception seems as though I am a player. But that’s not true. Love is something I am still learning. It’s just an obstacle that I haven’t yet mastered. I think that’s my biggest hurdle in life.

  Chris Brown

  Love Life, Player, Love Is

  "Chris Brown : 'Love is Something I am Still Learning'" by Gil Kaufman, www.mtv.com. November 30, 2012.

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• Art is really about perception, and mine have been changed through visiting other realities.

  Fred Tomaselli

  Art, Reality, Visiting

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