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• Perception determines insanity.

  Phil Collins

  Insanity, Determine

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• Carl Jung tells in one of his books of a conversation he had with a Native American chief who pointed out to him that in his perception most white people have tense faces, staring eyes, and a cruel demeanor. He said: “They are always seeking something. What are they seeking? The whites always want something. They are always uneasy and restless. We don't know what they want. We think they are mad.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Book, Native American, Eye

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.75, New World Library

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• Perception not only defines existence but it creates existence. It gives it form. Without perception there is no existence.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Giving, Awareness

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• It is easier to deceive yourself, and to do so unperceived, than to deceive another.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Self, Deceiving, Easier

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• Logically there is nothing new to say about the New. Or maybe it's just a problem of articulating unfamiliar perceptions.

  David Toop

  Problem, Nothing New, Unfamiliar

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• Painted time is a different zone. This is why I don't believe that a painting - although I've been accused of it many times now - can be truly topical. A painting's physicality gives it a different persistence and a different perception.

  Luc Tuymans

  Believe, Persistence, Giving

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• Porter Rockwell was that most terrible instrument that can be handled by fanaticism; a powerful physical nature welded to a mind of very narrow perceptions, intense convictions, and changeless tenacity. In his build he was a gladiator; in his humor a Yankee lumberman; in his memory a Bourbon; in his vengeance an Indian. A strange mixture, only to be found on the American continent

  Fitz Hugh Ludlow

  Memories, Powerful, Yankees

  Fitz Hugh Ludlow (1871). “The Heart of the Continent: A Record of Travel Across the Plains and in Oregon, with an Examination of the Mormon Principle”, p.355

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• I generally like grey roles. My interpretation of drama is different from the popular perception. Acting, for me, is not about overplaying, it is about concealing. I like flawed characters that people relate to. I would never do a romcom.

  Emraan Hashmi

  Drama, Character, People

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• Perception is naturally surpassed toward action; better yet, it can be revealed only in and through projects of action. The world is revealed as an "always future hollow", for we are always future to ourselves.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  World, Action, Projects

  Jean-Paul Sartre, Hazel Estella Barnes (1992). “Being and Nothingness”, p.425, Simon and Schuster

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• Perhaps the most concise summary of enlightenment would be: transcending dualism . ... Dualism is the conceptual division of the world into categories ... human perception is by nature a dualistic phenomenon - which makes the quest for enlightenment an uphill struggle, to say the least.

  Douglas Hofstadter

  Struggle, Enlightenment, Would Be

  "Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid". Book by Douglas Hofstadter, 1979.

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• What we call a mind is nothing but a heap or collection of different perceptions, united together by certain relations and supposed, though falsely, to be endowed with a perfect simplicity and identity.

  David Hume

  Perfect, Simplicity, Mind

  David Hume (2015). “A Treatise of Human Nature: Top Philosophy Collections”, p.163, 谷月社

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• Do the structures of language and the structures of reality (by which I mean what actually happens) move along parallel lines? Does reality essentially remain outside language, separate, obdurate, alien, not susceptible to description? Is an accurate and vital correspondence between what is and our perception of it impossible? Or is it that we are obliged to use language only in order to obscure and distort reality -- to distort what happens -- because we fear it?

  Harold Pinter

  Moving, Mean, Reality

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• When the brain is working to remember something, similar patterns of neurons fire as they did during the perception of the original event. These networks are linked, and each time we revisit them, they become stronger and more associated. But they need the proper retrieval cues--words, smells, images-- for them to be brought back as memories

  Susannah Cahalan

  Memories, Fire, Smell

  Susannah Cahalan (2012). “Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• Paranoia reduces anxiety and guilt by transferring to the other all the characteristics one does not want to recognize in oneself. It is maintained by selective perception and recall. We only see and acknowledge those negative aspects of the enemy that support the stereotype we have already created.

  Sam Keen

  Support, Anxiety, Enemy

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• Stereotypes are the mind's shorthand for dealing with complexities. They have two aspects: they are much blunter than reality; they are shaped to fit a man's preferences or prejudgments. Thus two principles are involved: differentiation or its lack, and biased preferential perception.

  Robert E Lane

  Reality, Men, Two

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• It's very difficult to change the perception people have of you.

  Kristin Cavallari

  People, Difficult

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• Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Death, Science, Mind

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• The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective.

  Al Neuharth

  Funny, Attitude, Climbing

  Al Neuharth (1992). “Confessions of an S.O.B.”, Signet

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• I always thought death was cruel, a silent destroyer of breath, of hope, of life. Now I understand it is physical death, the perception of it, the fear of it, which often saves us; for death marks the end of our flesh causing us to question the future of what we are.

  Stefanie Schneider

  Deep Thought, Flesh, Silent

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• The representational-image urge is actually a kind of heightened perception, and I don't stop to think. I don't freeze up - it's actually a kind of letting-go. It's like dancing. At a certain point it's conscious, unconscious, everything is kind of coming together.

  Michael Light

  Letting Go, Thinking, Dancing

  Interview with Lawrence Weschler, believermag.com. November 1, 2010.

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• The rules of the universe that we think we know are buried deep in our processes of perception.

  Gregory Bateson

  Thinking, Process, Buried

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• There are lots of cycles to markets - boom and bust - and also in perceptions of people. The conventional wisdom of Steve Case as genius or fool was highly cyclical. The truth was always in the middle.

  Steve Case

  People, Genius, Fool

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• The perception is that baseball's players' union is protecting players to use steroids and other illegal performance-enhancing drugs.

  Jim Bunning

  Baseball, Player, Drug

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• Sensory perception is the silken web that binds our separate nervous systems into the encompassing ecosystem.

  David Abram

  Ecosystems, Nervous, Sensory

  David Abram (2010). “Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology”, p.134, Vintage

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• We must go through a natural revolution if we are to survive on earth. We need to change people's perceptions. If there's no environment, there's no human race. We are in a state of global denial.

  Ted Turner

  Inspiring, Race, People

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