T Quotes
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“The perception of duration itself presupposes a duration of perception.”
Source: Introduction to Logic and Theory of Knowledge: Lectures 1906/07
“The perception of him as brooding and dark and miserable, that is baloney. Kurt Cobain was a funny dude.”
“The perception of other people and the intersubjective world is problematic only for adults. The child lives in a world which he unhesitatingly believes accessible to all around him. He has no awares of himself or of others as private subjectives, nor does he suspect that all of us, himself included, are limited to one certain point of view of the world. That is why he subjects neither his thoughts, in which he believes as they present themselves, to any sort of criticism. He has no knowledge of points of view. For him men are empty heads turned towards one single, self-evident world where everything takes place, even dreams, which are, he thinks, in his room, and even thinking, since it is not distinct from words.”
Source: Phenomenology of Perception
“The perception of potential threats to survival may be much more important in determining behavior than the perceptions of potential profits, so that profit maximization is not really the driving force. It is fear of loss rather than hope of gain that limits our behavior.”
“The perception of poverty as morally intolerable in a rich society had to await the emergence of a rich society”
“The perception of the beautiful is gradual, and not a lightning revelation; it requires not only time, but some study.”
Source: Doctor Antonio. A tale. By the author of Lorenzo Benoni [i.e. Giovanni Domenico Ruffini].
“The perception of the West as mostly a "knight of democracy" has been replaced with the disappointed belief that pragmatism, often cynical and selfish, lies at the core of Western policies. For many Russians it was a grave disillusion, a crushing of ideals.”
“The perception of what we as professors provide has changed. Constant and demanding e-mails are just another manifestation of what our society has become.”
“The perception that Donald Trump has softened on immigration or is about to soften on immigration has some on the right concerned that he could lose support among his most loyal base of supporters, though he`d been drawn to his hard-line positions on immigration early in the campaign.”
“The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.”
Source: Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life
“The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.”
“The perceptive in the City could see that their long run of ever more perfect freedom, beginning with Margaret Thatcher’s big bang and advancing, to their pleasant surprise, under Tony Blair’s New Labour, was facing a prolonged interruption when the masses worked out that they had been left with the bill for the incipient crisis. The new moneymen of the former Soviet Union shared with the libertarians of the City a loathing for the state. They had done splendid business together, the industrial triumphs of the proletariat laid out in lavish stock market prospectuses.”
“The perceptive power of the brain in this undirected mode is so strong that it seems to border on a kind of telepathy. Test subjects can tell winning poker hands, for example, by watching two-second clips of professional players moving their chips to the center of the table to place a bet. Players with winning hands were almost imperceptibly smoother and looser in their body movements. (Their faces were unobservable in the study. A separate study found that facial expression—which is easy to mask—did not help observers judge the strength of a hand at all.) And the same is true of athletes: If you show basketball players a brief video of fellow players taking a free throw, roughly two-thirds of the time they can determine whether or not he will make the shot, based solely on the movement of the arm. There is something about grace that tells athletes what is about to happen. In short, quicker, more efficient movement gives small fighters an advantage over large ones, and unconscious perceptions allow them to see punches before they have been launched. Were either not true, larger fighters would regularly crush small ones, but they don't. This allows humans to confront or disobey the largest male in the group, which is a departure from millions of years of primate evolution.”
Source: Freedom
“The perceptual body that you are at the time of death ceases to be. It is not structured quite so tightly.”
“The perennial architectural debate has always been, and will continue to be, about art versus use, visions versus pragmatism, aesthetics versus social responsibility. In the end, these unavoidable conflicts provide architecture's essential and productive tensions; the tragedy is that so little of it rises above the level imposed by compromise, and that this is the only work most of us see and know.”
Source: On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change
“The perennial conviction that those who work hard and play by the rules will be rewarded with a more comfortable present and a stronger future for their children faces assault from just about every direction. That great enemy of democratic capitalism, economic inequality, is real and growing.”
“The perennial gale of creative destruction”
Source: The Theory of Economic Development: An Inquiry into Profits, Capital, Credit, Interest, and the Business Cycle
“The Perennial Philosophy is expressed most succinctly in the Sanskrit formula, tat tvam asi ('That art thou'); the Atman, or immanent eternal Self, is one with Brahman, the Absolute Principle of all existence; and the last end of every human being, is to discover the fact for himself, to find out who he really is.”
Source: The Perennial Philosophy: An Interpretation of the Great Mystics, East and West
“The perennial sadness of a girl who is both death and the maiden.”
“The perennial wonder of Venice is to peer at herself in her canals and find that she exists-incredible as it seems. It is the same reassurance that a looking-glass offers us: the guarantee that we are real.”
Source: Venice observed
“The perfect accessory can make the difference between looking blah and totally to die for”
“The perfect age is when you are old enough to know better, young enough not to care, and wise enough to do it right.”
“The perfect antidote to dark, cold and creepy is light, warm and cozy.”
“The perfect antidote to envy is not, as you may suspect, perfect success. The perfect antidote to envy is self-love - when you know deep inside that you are on the absolutely right path for yourself, or you are in the process of uncovering what that path is, and you are doing the best you can right now given all the external and internal parameters.”
“The perfect aphorism would achieve classical balance and then immediately upset it.”
“The perfect bacon sandwich is on white bread, very soft and very thick. Sourdough with a good crust. The bacon is half way to being crispy - and there's lots of it - and enough brown sauce to trickle down your arm. You've not really enjoyed a bacon sandwich unless 10 minutes later you're still licking your wrists.”
“The perfect being, huh? There is no such thing as perfect in this world. That may sound cliché, but it’s the truth. The average person admires perfection and seeks to obtain it. But, what’s the point of achieving perfection? There is none. Nothing. Not a single thing. I loathe perfection! If something is perfect, then there is nothing left. There is no room for imagination. No place left for a person to gain additional knowledge or abilities. Do you know what that means? For scientists such as ourselves, perfection only brings despair. It is our job to create things more wonderful than anything before them, but never to obtain perfection. A scientist must be a person who finds ecstasy while suffering from that antimony. In short, the moment that foolishness left your mouth and reached my ears, you had already lost. Of course, that’s assuming you are a scientist”
“The perfect blossom is a rare thing. You could spend your life looking for one and it would not be a wasted life.”
“The perfect body is but an illusion; just give your best.”
Source: Rep By Rep
“The perfect borscht is what life should be but never is.”
Source: The Book of My Lives
“The perfect breakfast is fish with grits and scrambled eggs with onions. I'm getting hungry thinking about that.”
“The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.”
Source: Once Around the Sun
“The perfect Christmas gift for a sportscaster, as all fans of sports clichés know, is a scoreless tie.”
Source: You could look it up: more on language
“The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of. Our attention would have been on God.”
Source: Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer
“The perfect church service would be the one we were almost unaware of; our attention would have been on God. But every novelty prevents this. It fixes our attention on the service itself; and thinking about worship is a different thing than worshipping ... 'Tis mad idolatry that makes the service greater than the god.”
“The perfect classroom is Paris.”
Source: Of Diamonds and Diplomats
“The perfect comeback only comes to you way after the offending incident, most especially when you’re alone in the shower with no one but the shampoo bottle to tell it to.”
Source: Lucky Caller
“The perfect crime is when you push someone to suicide. I once read a study that said everyone in the course of their life has thought of killing someone.”
“The perfect criminal is the one who lays claim to the crime he has not committed. Who conceals his innocence behind the mask of crime. He is much harder to unmask.”
Source: Cool Memories IV, 1995-2000
“The perfect criminal, should he or she exist, would be the one who is never apprehended - indeed, the one whose crimes may be huge but unnoticed, or indeed miscategorized not as crimes at all because they are so powerful they sway the law in their favor, or so clever they discover an immoral opportunity for criminal enterprise before the legislators notice it. Such forms of criminality may be indistinguishable, at a distance, from lawful business; the criminal paragon of upper-class virtue, a face-man for Forbes.”
Source: The Jennifer Morgue
“The perfect critic is one ... that sees with the eyes of posterity.”
“The perfect date for me would be staying at home, making a big picnic in bed, eating Wotsits and cookies while watching cable TV.”
“The perfect date is the one where anything and everything goes wrong, but at the end of it, all you want is to see them again.”
“The perfect day for quitting is not real. It will never come, so might as well start today”
“The perfect day is going to bed with a dream and waking up with a purpose.”
“The perfect detective story cannot be written. The type of mind which can evolve the perfect problem is not the type of mind that can produce the artistic job of writing.”
Source: The World of Raymond Chandler: In His Own Words
“The perfect diamond has many facets. It's almost never that the same hand cuts them all.”
Source: A Song Begins
“The perfect disinterestedness and self-devotion of which men seem incapable, but which is sometimes found in women.”
“The perfect equation is form equals content. The style of the film reflects the story, and that's what you're always aiming for. You're not always necessarily successful at it, but that's the ambition that you're trying to do.”
“The perfect family board game is one that can be played each time with fewer pieces.”