#perception

Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions. ↗

— M. H. Abrams

#determine #help #how #key #metaphors

Thus the same object may supply a practical perception to one person and a speculative one to another, or the same person may perceive it partly practically and partly speculatively. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

#may #object #partly #perceive #perception

I had older brothers and sisters who were high achievers, and I felt different, misunderstood by my family. That's not my family's fault; it was my perception. ↗

— Willie Aames

#brothers #different #family #fault #felt

I think my perception of my own life is different and the fact that Lauren and myself are together. I've never felt this free or happy and so that permeates onto my onstage persona and to my working environment. ↗

— Rick Allen

#environment #fact #felt #free #happy

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 its own freedom. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#feeds #form #freedom #matter #movements

Well, my wife always says to me, and I think it's true, it's very difficult for us to understand the Elizabethan understanding and enjoyment and perception of form as it is to say... it would be for them to understand computers or going to the moon or something. ↗

— Mark Rylance

#computers #difficult #elizabethan #enjoyment #form

It's to hard to speak unfeigned to a world that bathes in the art of deception. It's hard to seek the truth in a world that has been enveloped with illusions. It's hard to touch sincerity, when opinions exist. However, it's easy to have faith, when the highest respected power is naiveté. ↗

— Lionel Suggs

#art

I have no auditory depth perception. She said, “I love you,” and I couldn’t even tell if she was 300 miles away, or 6 feet below my feet and 300 years away.
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— Jarod Kintz

#auditory #cemetery #death #depth-perception #grave

Perceiving the world as well designed and thus the product of a designer, and even seeing divine providence in the daily affairs of life, may be the product of a brain adapted to finding patterns in nature. (38) ↗

— Michael Shermer

#patterns #perception #providence #design

How different would our perception of reality be if, instead, we discarded the mudane events that cannot coexist with our dreams? ↗

— Robin Hobb

#perceptions #dreams