Perception Quotes - Page 36

• I think the connection between poetry and theology, which is profound in Western tradition - there is a great deal of wonderful religious poetry - both poetry and theology push conventional definitions and explore perceptions that might be ignored or passed off as conventional, but when they are pressed yield much larger meanings, seem to be part of a much larger system of reality.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Religious, Reality, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The idea that the universe itself is physically structured around hierarchy was sort of an integration of earlier science and theology that was made by people like Thomas Aquinas, that was assumed doctrinally in that tradition. The Reformation rejected that model of reality and created a highly individualistic metaphysics in the sense that it located everything normative that can be said about reality in human perception, there being, of course, no other avenue of knowing. There is Scripture, there is conscience, there is perception itself.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Reality, Knowing, Ideas

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• If you read Calvin, for example, he says, How do we know that we are godlike, in the image of God? Well, look at how brilliant we are. Look how we can solve problems even dreaming, which I think is true, which I've done myself. So instead of having an externalized model of reality with an objective structure, it has a model of reality that is basically continuously renegotiated in human perception. I think that view of things is pretty pervasively influential in Protestant thought.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Dream, Thinking, Reality

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Sometimes something will be happening in pop culture and a movie will be right there, so you'll have this perception that maybe the movie got there first. But in reality, culture gets there first.

  Ellen Page

  Reality, Firsts, Culture

  Source: waytooindie.com

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• I tend not to worry about what the perception is. I think people have their different views over different things. They have different opinions over different business models and over different business interests.

  Bruno Zheng Wu

  Thinking, Views, People

  Source: deadline.com

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• The [Edward] Snowden disclosures created this perception that people's privacy was being put at significant risk.

  Michael Morell

  People, Risk, Privacy

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Companies made these decisions about encryption when they were finding it very difficult to sell their products overseas because the [Edward] Snowden disclosures created the impression that the U.S. government was inside this hardware and software produced by them. They needed to do something to deal with the perception.

  Michael Morell

  Government, Decision, Encryption

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capably only of fractured perceptions. Partial beings, in all the senses of that phrase.

  Salman Rushdie

  Lenses, Phrases, Perceive

  "Imaginary Homelands". Book by Salman Rushdie, 1992.

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• At times the truth shines so brilliantly that we perceive it as clear as day. Our nature and habit then draw a veil over our perception, and we return to a darkness almost as dense as before. We are like those who, though beholding frequent flashes of lightning, still find themselves in the thickest darkness of the night.

  Maimonides

  Night, Shining, Darkness

  Moses Maimonides (2016). “Guide for the perplexed”, p.148, Moses Maimonides

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• Know that for the human mind there are certain objects of perception which are within the scope of its nature and capacity; on the other hand, there are, amongst things which actually exist, certain objects which the mind can in no way and by no means grasp: the gates of perception are closed against it.

  Maimonides

  Mean, Hands, Mind

  Moses Maimonides, Aeterna Press (1948). “The Guide for the Perplexed”, p.123, Aeterna Press

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  To know each other we must reach beyond the sphere of our sense perceptions.

  Nikola Tesla

  Spheres, Sense Perception, Knows

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Wireless Tesla”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• I am who I am, you are who you are, and everything else is a perception based on acceptance, deception, smoke, mirrors, and so on. It's what's between us that seems to justify our accidental identities.

  Jason Mraz

  Acceptance, Mirrors, Who I Am

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• It is the bane and the balm of individual perception that 'objective' reality is seen through the filter of each person's temperament.

  Leonard Shlain

  Reality, Filters, Individual

  Leonard Shlain (1991). “Art and Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time, and Light”, William Morrow & Company

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• Perception is all there is. If the customer think he's right, he's right.

  Tom Peters

  Thinking, Customers, Ifs

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• Perception can be changed

  Phil Knight

  Changed

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• Perception rules the world. Everyone knows that. Where we live and where we're from, you just can't escape it.

  Lamar Odom

  World, Knows

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• Pathology has made us acquainted with a great number of states in which the boundary lines between the ego and the external world become uncertain or in which they are actually drawn incorrectly. There are cases in which parts of a person's own body, even portions of his own mental life - his perceptions, thoughts and feelings -, appear alien to him and as not belonging to his ego; there are other cases in which he ascribes to the external world things that clearly originate in his own ego and that ought to be acknowledged by it.

  Sigmund Freud

  Numbers, Ego, Feelings

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• Philosophy... is the creative perception by the spirit of the meaning of human existence.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Philosophy, Creative, Spirit

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• One of the sweet and expectable aspects of life afloat is the perpetual present moment one lives in and a perception that time is nothing more than the current, an eternal flowing back to the sea.

  William Least Heat-Moon

  Sweet, Sea, Moments

  William Least Heat-Moon (1999). “River-Horse: A Voyage Across America”, p.51, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Some of the albums I like best in the whole world are considered psychedelic albums. A psychedelic album is an album that when you put it on, if you listen to both sides, when it's over, your perceptions have been changed and I think that our record can do that.

  Richard Lloyd

  Thinking, Over You, Albums

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• The purpose of art is to reflect new emerging values and to define the new heroes and heroines so that people can absorb them into their perceptions.

  Edward de Bono

  Art, Hero, People

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• There is no nobler chore in the craft of writing than holding up the mirror of reality and turning it slightly, so we have a new and different perception of the commonplace, the everyday, the 'normal,' the obvious. People are reflected in the glass. The fantasy situation into which you thrust them is the mirror itself. And what we are shown should illuminate and alter our perception of the world around us. Failing that, you have failed totally.

  Harlan Ellison

  Writing, Reality, Glasses

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• The story must spring from an impression or perception pressing enough to have made the writer write. It should magnetize the imagination and give pleasure.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Spring, Writing, Giving

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• There is always a divergence between our perception and what actually exists.

  George Soros

  Divergence

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• Everyone brings their own perceptions when reading a book about a real person. At the end they will take away whatever they wish.

  Patricia Montandon

  Real, Book, Reading

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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