#perceive

What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross. ↗

— Paracelsus

#eyes #herbs #only #perceive #remedy

I didn't want to be perceived as a girly girl on stage. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#girly #i #perceived #stage #want

It would be so weird if we knew just as much as we needed to know to answer all the questions of the universe. Wouldn't that be freaky? Whereas the probability is high that there is a vast reality that we have no way to perceive, that's actually bearing down on us now and influencing everything. ↗

— George Saunders

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We don't live in the world of reality, we live in the world of how we perceive reality. ↗

— Bryan Singer

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At the time I perceived most religious men, particularly the pastors with all their talk about love, faith and relationship, as effeminate. ↗

— Luke Ford

#effeminate #faith #i #love #men

Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany which was once a symbol of greatness to him. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

#despise #even #father #faults #german

I have often talked with angels on this subject, and they have invariably declared that in heaven they are unable to divide the Divine into three, because they know and perceive that the Divine is One and this One is in the Lord. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

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Changes is the mother of time. Absence of changes makes no time. ↗

— Toba Beta

#perceive #reality #relativity #subjectivity #time

It is the function of creative man to perceive and to connect the seemingly unconnected. ↗

— William Plomer

#creative #creative man #function #man #perceive

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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