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Getting lost in human perception is a very scary idea. -- Ezra Miller
Magicians have done controlled testing in human perception for thousands of years. -- Teller
Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I've always believed that photography is a way to shape human perception. -- James Balog
All descriptions of matter are descriptions of modes of human perception within consciousness. -- Deepak Chopra
What we call art would seem to be specialist artifacts for enhancing human perception. -- Marshall McLuhan
The human perception of this energy first begins with a heightened sensitivity to beauty. -- James Redfield
...The human perception of this energy first begins with a heightened sensitivity to beauty. -- James Redfield
It is a perversely human perception that animals in their native habitat are running wild. -- Robert Breault
Life is a cutup. And to pretend that you write or paint in a timeless vacuum is just simply . . . not . . . true, not in accord with the facts of human perception. -- William S. Burroughs
Imagination that compares and contrasts with what is around as well as what is better and worse is the living power and prime agent of all human perception judgement and emotional reaction. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Where mathematics and spirit join, where proof of the existence of mystery-salvific mystery-shimmers just below the surfaces of human perception, experience and the linguistic veil itself, Killarney Clary's new book-her best to date-dwells, plumbs, persuades and thrills. -- Jorie Graham
True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception to the region of emotion. -- Leo Tolstoy
Perhaps the most concise summary of enlightenment would be: transcending dualism . ... Dualism is the conceptual division of the world into categories ... human perception is by nature a dualistic phenomenon which makes the quest for enlightenment an uphill struggle, to say the least. -- Douglas Hofstadter
[The cause of inaction in war] ... is the imperfection of human perception and judgment which is more pronounced in war than anywhere else. We hardly know accurately our own situation at any particular moment while the enemy's, which is concealed from us, must be deduced from very little evidence. -- Carl von Clausewitz
It's quite possible we may actually be looking at some kind of super-sanity here. A brilliant new modification of human perception, more suited to urban life at the end of the twentieth century...He creates himself each day. He sees himself as the lord of misrule and the world as a theatre of the absurd. -- Grant Morrison
The new limitations are the human ones of perception. -- Milton Babbitt
The perception of identity is so intimately bound up with the perception of the human form. -- David Hanson
So, we, as human beings, live in a very imprecise world. A world where our perceptions of reality are far more important than actual reality. -- Daniel Keys Moran
Free enterprise capitalism has been the most powerful creative system of social cooperation and human progress ever conceived, but its perception and its role in society have been distorted. -- John Mackey
It's been a continuity right from the beginning - that longing to weave together perceptions, to affirm the richness of us as human beings both as performers and audience members. -- Meredith Monk
The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this. -- William Wordsworth
The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it's Southern Baptist or Islam or any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity. -- E. O. Wilson
Sometimes I think that when people become famous, there's a public perception that they are not human beings any more. They don't have feelings; they don't get hurt; you can act and say as you like about them. -- Salman Rushdie
In the studios days, the public's perception of movie stars was much different, because the stars were so much less exposed. This made them seem more special, more unearthly. Today they're no longer perceived as different - they've become human, so to speak. -- Richard D. Zanuck
I think the future of this planet depends on humans, not technology, and we already have the knowledge - we're kind of at the endgame with knowledge. But we're nowhere near the endgame when it comes to our perception. We still have one foot in the dark ages. -- Graham Hawkes
The freedom to be able to offer education, human services, and health care in accordance with our own identity as a church should not be denied us simply because there may be the perception of a political majority who favors a new understanding of the American tradition of pluralism. -- Donald Wuerl
Every situation has qualities. Essentially, we quantify them and that's the practical side of our lives, so the involvement with perception and in acquiring the perception is our ability to understand qualities. They exist only as long as a human being keeps them in play. They're - Therefore they are akin to energy. -- Robert Irwin
Justice League' takes place in the past, and Aquaman has a lot more to prove. He's just starting out. The perception is already beginning, and all these super humans are just showing up, and here's Aquaman. The perception is, 'What's next? Now we've got a guy talking to fish. What can be next?' -- Geoff Johns
Yes, people do come across the street to say hi, but as they approach and get near, my perception of space begins to dissolve, and a new interest takes over that is primarily emotional, and with it comes a desire to touch, which may be a human interest, but not the interest of my work. -- Diego Giacometti
The first cause of waste is probably even buried in our DNA. Human beings have a need for maintaining consistency of the apperceptive mass. What does that mean? What it means is, for every perception we have, it needs to tally with the one like it before, or we don't have continuity, and we become a little bit disoriented. -- Dan Phillips
Human perception is literally incarnation. -- Marshall McLuhan
Art is a conduit toward human needs and perception, -- John Maeda
Understanding human nature. Perception. That's how I see acting - perception and communication. -- Juliette Lewis
Philosophy... is the creative perception by the spirit of the meaning of human existence. -- Nikolai Berdyaev
The drive for control, or the perception thereof, is truly the strongest force in human nature. -- Tom Peters
The locus of the human mystery is perception of this world. From it proceeds every thought, every art. -- Marilynne Robinson
Customers perceive service in their own unique, idiosyncratic, emotional, irrational, end-of-the-day, and totally human terms. Perception is all there is! -- Tom Peters
The eternal sound of the sea on every side has a tendency to wear away the edge of human thought and perception ... -- Celia Thaxter
Within the human frequency of perception, what you see is what you get. I would classify the bottom of the band as severe unhappiness, depression and alimentation. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Mysticism is concerned primarily with moving our awareness field from the beginning of the band of perception, the human band, up to the enlightened bands of perception. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life, transmitting man's reasonable perception into feeling. -- Leo Tolstoy
The human field of perception is not the only band of perception. Nor is it necessarily the best; there is no such thing in infinity. Infinity does not label. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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