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“Truth travels down from the heights of philosophy to the humblest walks of life, and up from the simplest perceptions of an awakened intellect to the discoveries which almost change the face of the world. At every stage of its progress it is genial, luminous, creative.”

World Philosophy Truth Faces Walks Creative Progress Stage Perception Discovery Intellect Height Simplest Awakened Luminous Walks Of Life

Book:Importance of Practical Education and Useful Knowledge: Being a Selection from His Orations and Other Discourses

Source: Importance of Practical Education and Useful Knowledge: Being a Selection from His Orations and Other Discourses

“The popular prophets have underestimated how strange the truth can be. The human brain, that 'perfect instrument,' that 'fabulous electronic dance,' can be our open sesame to an infinitely richer life than we have believed possible. The fluent, liberating, creative, healing attributes of the altered states can be incorporated into consciousness. We are just beginning to realize that we can truly open the doors of perception and creep out of the cavern.”

“Creative freedom is determined by how we behold the world. Any one of us can make new things with our perceptions that serve as doorways to the creative imagination. No one is excluded.”

World Imagination Creative Perception Determined New Things Doorways Excluded Creative Imagination Creative Freedom

Author:Shaun McNiff

“Philosophy... is the creative perception by the spirit of the meaning of human existence.”

Humans Philosophy Spirit Existence Creative Perception Human Existence

Author:Nikolai Berdyaev

“No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.”

Men Should Spirit Emotion Creativity Creative Produce Perspective Confidence Perception Perceive Self Expression Be Encouraged No Confidence Building Confidence Dictating Creative Spirit Perception Of Others

Author:Ansel Adams

“Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it 'creative observation.' Creative viewing.”

People Artist Vision Creativity Creative Seeing Perception Observation Awe Observing

Author:William S. Burroughs

“What is real to me is the power of our awareness when we are focused on something beyond ourselves. It is a shaft of light shining in a dark corner. Our ability to shift our perceptions and seek creative alternatives to the conondrums of modernity is in direct proportion to our empathy. Can we imagine, witness, and ultimately feel the suffering of another?”

Feels Real Light Suffering Dark Ability Creative Imagine Awareness Perception Empathy Direct Shining Corners Focused Witness Alternatives Proportion Modernity

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“But the creative principle resides in mathematics. In a certain sense, therefore, I hold true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed.”

Reality Certain Principles Creativity Creative Pure Perception Mathematics Math

Book:Essays in Science

Source: Essays in Science

“Photography is an investigation of both the outer and the inner worlds. The first experiences with the camera involve looking at the world beyond the lens, trusting the instrument will 'capture' something 'seen.' The terms shoot and take are not accidental; they represent an attitude of conquest and appropriation. Only when the photographer grows into perception and creative impulse does the term make define a condition of empathy between the external and the internal events.”

Source: Ansel Adams: An Autobiography

“Meditation is making research into yourself, and into the subtler fields of activity. Day after day we culture our minds with the deep silence of our own Being. This is not the silence of a stone, but creative silence. We have to find it for ourselves. We decrease activity until silence becomes creative, and we sit in creative silence and close the gates of perception for insight into the content of life.”

Mind Culture Silence Creative Meditation Fields Activity Perception Research Stones Insight Gates Silence Is Decrease

Author:Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“Every creative act – in science, art, or religion – involves a regression to a more primitive level, a new innocence of perception liberated from the cataract of accepted beliefs.”

Art Belief Creative Perception Accepted Innocence Liberated

Author:Arthur Koestler

“Dastardly devious, cleverly conceived, and just a whole lot of fun to read, DEATH PERCEPTION is Lee Allen Howard on fire and at his finest. Rife with winsome weirdness, it's like the mutant stepchild of Carl Hiaasen and Stephen King, mixing a truly unique paranormal coming-of-age story with a quirky cast of offbeat noir characters into a novel that's simply unforgettable... and hilariously original. A supernatural crime story, blazing with creative intrigue... don't miss it.”

“In our business, except in media buying, there are few economies of scale. Client perception of creative agencies is that the bigger they are, the worse they are.”

Economy Creative Media Perception Bigger Scales Advertising Agency Buying Clients

Author:Martin Sorrell