#perceiving

Sense data are much more controversial than qualia, because they are associated with a controversial theory of perception - that one perceives the world by perceiving one's sense-data, or something like that. ↗

— David Chalmers

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Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#cloak #her #honorable #humility #often

I was perceiving myself as good as a man or equal to a man and as powerful and I wanted to look ambiguous because I thought that was a very interesting statement to make through the media. And it certainly did cause quite a few ripples and interest and shock waves. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#because #cause #certainly #did #equal

There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

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I have been interested in dreams, really since I was a kid. I have always been fascinated by the idea that your mind, when you are asleep, can create a world in a dream and you are perceiving it as though it really existed. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

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But I have been interested in dreams, really since I was a kid. I have always been fascinated by the idea that your mind, when you are asleep, can create a world in a dream and you are perceiving it as though it really existed. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

#asleep #been #create #dream #dreams

Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way. ↗

— William James

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All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

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In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

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