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The dung beetle, seeing its child on the wall, thinks it sees a pearl on a thread.
-Arabic Proverb
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Since light travels faster than sound, people appear bright until you hear them speak.
-Anon.
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So, my argument is that as we become more and more scientifically literate, it
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-Douglas Adams
speech at Digital Biota 2, Cambridge U.K., September, 1998
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Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
-Amos Bronson Alcott
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Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
-Hans Christian Andersen
The Ugly Duckling
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No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.
-Ruth Benedict
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To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.
-Walter Benjamin
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To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.
-Henri Bergson
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If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is: infinite.
For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.
-William Blake
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
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If man did not exist as a world-spanning receptive realm of perception, if he were not engaged in this capacity, nothing at all could exist. 'Being,' in its traditional usage, means 'presence' and 'persistence.' To achieve presence, and thereby being, an entity requires some sort of open realm in which presence and persistence can take place. Thus an open realm of perception like that of human existence is the one being that makes being possible.
-Medard Boss
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When we visualize something, we establish a relationship to the thing itself, not to some mere subjective representation of it inside us.
-Medard Boss
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To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything. Between what I do recognize and what I do not recognize there stands myself. And what I do not recognize I shall continue not to recognize.
-Andre Breton
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Some people see the cup as half empty. Some people see the cup as half full. I see the cup as too large.
-George Carlin
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Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution.
-G. K. Chesterton
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The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.
-G. K. Chesterton
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You are only as wise as others perceive you to be.
-M. Shawn Cole
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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
-Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities
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Love all God's creation, the whole and every grain of sand of it. Love every leaf, every ray of God's light. Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.
-Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Brothers Karamazov
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Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name.
-Andrea Dworkin
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Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a persistent one.
-Albert Einstein
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In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
-Desiderius Erasmus
Adages
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Maybe it
-M. C. (Maurits Cornelis) Escher
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However, no two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is --in other words, not a thing, but a think.
-Penelope Fitzgerald
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I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person.
-Martha Gellhorn
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The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.
-Kahlil Gibran, "A Handful of Sand on the Shore"
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Books about Perception
