Ayn Rand held that art is a 're-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgements.' By its nature, therefore, a novel… — Leonard Peikoff Copy Share Image
To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
We perceive and interpret the outer world through a set of incredibly fine internal receptors. But we are incapable, by ourselves, of… — Max Kozloff Copy Share Image
When you face a creative change at the house, you have to start a dialogue, and talk with the designer about how… — Delphine Arnault Copy Share Image
I cannot... perceive any ground for hoping that any practical good would, while the funding system exists in its present extent, result… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
what we call things matters. ... The words we use, and how we perceive those words, reflect how we value, or devalue,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Men wrongly lament the flight of time, blaming it for being too swift; they do not perceive that its passage is sufficiently… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I have a strong feeling for it, and I think us as humans perceive all of that - the pressure change and… — Dean Potter Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm capable of making radical changes, but over a period of four or five years you can perceive very… — Philip Glass Copy Share Image
If an outsider perceives 'something wrong' with a core scientific model, the humble and justified response of that curious outsider should be… — David Brin Copy Share Image
I am a feminist. I reject wholeheartedly the way we are taught to perceive women. The beauty of women, how a woman… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
We have the tendency to judge others by their surface appearance, and to find only their negative qualities. But if we search… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
I am surprised at the way people seem to perceive me, and sometimes I read stories and hear things about me and… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
We don't live in the world of reality, we live in the world of how we perceive reality. — Bryan Singer Copy Share Image
Glamour is not something you possess but something you perceive, not something you have but something you feel. It is a subjective… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
In the hall of mirrors, you are everywhere. Which is the real you? Find your original Self, the one who perceives all… — Alberto Villoldo Copy Share Image
We try to realize the essential unity of the world with the conscious soul of man; we learn to perceive the unity… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
I've spent my entire career on horseback or on a motorcycle. It boxes you in, the way people perceive you. — Sam Elliott Copy Share Image
Nature is a light, and by looking at Nature in her own light we will understand her. Visible Nature may be seen… — Paracelsus Copy Share Image
The whole universe or the structure that perceives it is a worthy opponent, but try as I may I can not escape… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
When the eye fails to find beauty-alias solace-it commands the body to create it, or, failing that, adjusts itself to perceive virtue… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
The Zen meditative approach has a simple, unstated premise: moods and attitudes shape—determine—what we think and perceive. If we feel happy, we… — James H. Austin Copy Share Image
If, as some savants of consciousness suggest, we are actually agreeing to create, from moment to moment, everything we perceive as real,… — Phil Lesh Copy Share Image
