Perceptible Quotes
39 quotes by 34 authors
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Human rights, human freedoms, and human dignity have their deepest roots somewhere outside the perceptible world. These values are as powerful as they are because,…
— Vaclav Havel
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The aim of science is, on the one hand, as complete a comprehension as possible of the connection between perceptible experiences in their totality, and,…
— Albert Einstein
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If I determine the enemy's disposition of forces while I have no perceptible form, I can concentrate my forces while the enemy is fragmented. The…
— Sun Tzu
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The difference of a single day is perceptible. Vegetables can only be tasted in perfection, gathered the same day.
— John Pintard
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I feel lousy about the pain that I've caused my wife and kids. I feel guilty and conscience-stricken, and all of those things you think…
— William Holden
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Since only what is material is perceptible, knowable, nothing is known of the existence of God.
— Karl Marx
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The essence of painting has actually always been to make it [the universal] plastically perceptible through colour and line.
— Piet Mondrian
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But also philosophy is not about perceptible substances they, you see, are prone to destruction.
— Aristotle
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Therefore, doing the Stations of the Cross was still more laborious than consoling, and required a sacrifice. It was much the same with all my…
— Thomas Merton
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The electrical matter consists of particles extremely subtile, since it can permeate common matter, even the densest metals, with such ease and freedom as not…
— Benjamin Franklin
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The artist's mission is to make the soul perceptible. Our scientific, materialist culture trains us to develop the eyes of outer perception. Visionary art encourages…
— Alex Grey
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The Light of the Lord's Transfiguration does not come into being or cease to be, nor is it circumscribed or perceptible to the senses, even…
— Gregory Palamas
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In this we see the wondrous virtue of the Lord: that the power dwelling in His body should communicate to perishable things the efficacy to…
— Hilary of Poitiers
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The nature of the Absolute is neither perceptible nor imperceptible; and with phenomena it is just the same. But to one who has discovered his…
— Huangbo Xiyun
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Love is both a principle and an emotion; it is something both felt and willed. It is capable of almost infinite degrees. Love in the…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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We feel the breath of the wind upon our cheeks, we see the dust and the leaves blowing before the wind, we see the vessels…
— Reuben Archer Torrey
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It is an outcome of faith that nature-as she is perceptible to our five senses-takes the character of such a well formulated puzzle.
— Albert Einstein
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Science is the century-old endeavor to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going an association as…
— Albert Einstein
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Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?
— Louis Aragon
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The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks.
— Johannes Stark
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