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Perception Quotes by Henri Bergson
- To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.
- You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make…
- Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with…
- When it is said that an object occupies a large space in the soul or even that it fills it entirely, we ought to understand…
- When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived images…
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- Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears. — Marcus Aurelius
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- We live on the leash of our senses. — Diane Ackerman
- Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already… — Richard Bach