To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual…

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia--to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or…

— Henry Louis Mencken

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

— H. L. Mencken

Beauty is something we can affirm and intend to have more of. What happens then is our perceptual ability, no matter where we are,…

— James Redfield

Each of us believes himself to live directly within the world that surrounds him, to sense its objects and events precisely, and to live…

— Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle

“Perceptual fields are limited by the attractor patterns that they're associated with. This means that the capacity to recognize significant factors in a given…

— David Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D

Perceptual reality is different for different species. In certain species it is a mode of observation, so what we call scientific fact is actually…

— Deepak Chopra

“Visual impressions are greatly intensified and the eye recovers some of the perceptual innocence of childhood, when the sensum was not immediately and automatically…

— Aldous Huxley

Internal mental experience is not the product of a photographic process. Internal reality is in fact constructed by the brain as it interacts with…

— Daniel J. Siegel

A conscious decision to eliminate certain details and include selective bits of personal experiences or perceptual nuances, gives the painting more of a multi-dimension…

— Wayne Thiebaud

The life-world of human and animal experience, with colours, tastes, solid objects, is a perceptual effect of massed atoms.

— Catherine Wilson

“Did you realize that 90 to 99 percent of what goes on in the universe is either infra (below) or ultra (beyond) our faculties…

— P.M.H. Atwater

All of us tend to look at photographs as if we are simply gazing through a two-dimensional window onto some outside world. This is…

— Geoffrey Batchen

Nirvana bears no resemblance to anything in your current perceptual field.

— Frederick Lenz

One thing that you and I know is language. Another thing that you and I know is how objects behave in perceptual space. We…

— Noam Chomsky

The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.

— William James