Best Perceptible Quotes
39 Perceptible quotes by 34 unique authors
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The column hung above the middle of the pentacle, bubbling ever upward against the ceiling like the cloud of an erupting volcanoe. There was a…
— Jonathan Stroud
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Two weevils crept from the crumbs. 'You see those weevils, Stephen?' said Jack solemnly. I do.' Which would you choose?' There is not a scrap…
— Patrick O'Brian
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Art breaks open a dimension inaccessible to other experience, a dimension in which human beings, nature, and things no longer stand under the law of…
— Herbert Marcuse
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Concerning matter, we have been all wrong. What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration has been so lowered as to be perceptible to…
— Albert Einstein
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My encounter with another world and another culture and the beginnings of an attachment to them had set up an irritation, barely perceptible but incurable-rather…
— Andrei Tarkovsky
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This won't look so good in my obituary," Schaffer said dolefully. There was a perceptible edge of strain under the lightly-spoken words."Gave his life for…
— Alistair Maclean
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You haven’t changed at all. I expected a perceptible difference, but here you are, red-faced just like always.
— Stephenie Meyer
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Art flies around truth, but with the definite intention of not getting burnt. Its capacity lies in finding in the dark void a place where…
— Franz Kafka
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Trade protection accumulates upon a single point the good which it effects, while the evil inflicted is infused throughout the mass. The one strikes the…
— Frederic Bastiat
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but there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The dancer, or dancers, must transform the stage for the audience as well as for themselves into an autonomous, complete, virtual realm, and all motions…
— Susanne Katherina Langer
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Science is the century-old endeavour to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going an association as…
— Karl Popper
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On this thin, scarcely real and yet so perceptible sensation the whole world hung as on a faintly trembling axis, and this in turn rested…
— Robert Musil
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Science is the century-old endeavour to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going an association as…
— Albert Einstein
Who Wrote These Perceptible Quotes
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