Perception

Truth is universal. Perception of truth is not.

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Everything you see or hear or experience in any way at all is specific to you. You create a universe by perceiving it, so everything in the universe you perceive is specific to you.

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If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

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As men of inward light are wontTo turn their optics in upon't.

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The present is nothing else than the sum of what one perceives, remembers and hopes for.

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They say there is a difference between actual temperature and perceived temperature, but in the “bearable heaviness of being” the actual measure is no doubt the weight we perceive.

— Perception

In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

— Perception

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

— Perception

The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.

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They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

— Perception

It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive.

— Perception

What perception is, every one will know better by reflecting on what he does himself, what he sees, hears, feels, &c. or thinks, than by, any discourse of mine. Whoever reflects on what passes in his own mind, can-not miss it: and if he does not reflect, all the words in the world cannot make him have any notion of it.

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He gives us the very quintessence of perception.

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Whatever may have been written or thought about perception in literate cultures, it remains a special competency of consciousness, its essential faculty. Day by day, minute by minute, consciousness is preoccupied with perception. Through perception it is captivated by an external world. Without perception it would have to terminate its autopoiesis, and even dreams can occur only by suggesting perceptions.

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That books do not take the place of experience, and that learning is no substitute for genius, are two kindred phenomena; their common ground is that the abstract can never take the place of the perceptive.

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