Perception Quotes

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Being established in my life, buttressed by my thinking nature, fastened down in this transcendental field which was opened for me by my first perception,… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
...What happens is of little significance compared with the stories we tell ourselves about what happens. Events matter little, only stories of events affect us. — Rabih Alameddine
Paradigms power perceptions, perceptions power emotions. — William P. Young
The only reality we can ever truly know is that of our perceptions, our own consciousness, while that consciousness, and thus our entire reality, is… — Alan Moore
What do you mean, blindly? That baby is a very sentient creatureâ€¦ That baby sees the world with a completeness that you and I will… — Tom Wolfe
The Photograph is an extended, loaded evidence â€” as if it caricatured not the figure of what it represents (quite the converse) but its very… — Roland Barthes
If your eyes weren't open, you wouldn't know the difference between dreaming and waking. — Richelle Mead
The organ of perception acts more readily than judgment. — Leonardo da Vinci
Without a clear perception of his reasons for living, man will never consent to live, and will rather destroy himself than tarry on earth, though… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common.... — Stephen King
I really think the range of emotions and perceptions I have had access to as a black person and as a female person are greater… — Toni Morrison
I almost canâ€™t believe Iâ€™m going to make myself vulnerable to him again. But what is love but the most extreme and exquisite form of… — Megan McCafferty
Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered — Jose Saramago
Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else. — Fred Rogers
Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential. — Wallace Stevens
No matter how people try to dispute it, perception is reality. Its what you choose to believe that makes you the person you are. — Karen Marie Moning
Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the… — Alan Watts
Pain is a relatively objective, physical phenomenon; suffering is our psychological resistance to what happens. Events may create physical pain, but they do not in… — Dan Millman
Perception is transformed, and a new reality is born. — Dan Brown
A lot of what we're doing here deals with perception rather than truth. Many would argue that reality depends more on the former than the… — Carrie Vaughn

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