Brain Quote by Pliny the Elder

The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh…

— Pliny the Elder

During long periods of history, the mode of human sense perception changes with humanity’s entire mode of existence. The manner in which human sense…

— Walter Benjamin

After sleeping through a hundred million centuries, we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life.

— Richard Dawkins

I can sometimes sit for two hours in a room with almost no thought. Just complete stillness. Sometimes when I go for walks, there's…

— Eckhart Tolle

To know each other we must reach beyond the sphere of our sense perceptions.

— Nikola Tesla

The belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science. Since, however, sense perception only gives…

— Albert Einstein

If we try and direct our lives with only our limited rationalistic thoughts and our sense perceptions, then our actions and our activities will…

— Frederick Lenz

When our intellect has shaken off its many opinions about created things, then the inner principle of truth appears clearly to it, providing it…

— Maximus the Confessor

The mind wants to land, to fixate, to hold a concept, but the only way you can be really free is by not fixating.…

— Adyashanti

Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one's own awareness is direct knowledge.

— Ramana Maharshi

There is a single general space, a single vast immensity which we may freely call void: in it are unnumerable globes like this on…

— Giordano Bruno

It is one of the commonest of our mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of…

— Anonymous