#perceptions

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

The essence of life is the sharing of our perceptions of it with each other. ↗

— Al Cash

#perceptions #sharing #life

Do you think he's the murderer?" "It's worse than that -- he's an actor! ↗

— Julian Fellowes

#crime #humor #movies #murderers #perceptions

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

— M. H. Abrams

#determine #help #how #key #metaphors

Major social movements eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience. ↗

— Freda Adler

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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

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. ↗

— Mark Twain

#because #call #dull #dumb #his

The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit only the inner man, or more accurately, there is no inner man, man is in the world, and only in the world does he know himself. ↗

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

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Sometimes I feel limited by people's perceptions of what I can and cannot do, or what I do or don't look like. ↗

— Mira Sorvino

#feel #i #i can #i do #i feel

The real change that paintings undergo is in the perceptions of the viewer. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#paintings #perceptions #real #undergo #viewer