Home / Topics / Perception Quotes

Perception Quotes

Browse 3279 quotes about Perception.

Perception Quotes

“When you die you pass into inner worlds and continue to perceive. Death is not the dissolution of the self. Death is rather just a change in perception.”

World Self Death Dies Perception Perceive Inner World Dissolution

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you can die, you are confused because death is a perception of something ending and something else obviously beginning, which means we're still hung up on qualities.”

Ifs Mean Stills Death Dies Quality Perception Confused Hung

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Death is simply a change in perception. It is not an end to perception as a finite being.”

Ends Death Perception Finite

Author:Frederick Lenz

“He whom the gods love dies young, whilst he is full of health, perception, and judgment. [Lat., Quem dii diligunt, Adolescens moritur, dum valet, sentit, sapit.]”

Young Death Dies Judgment Perception God Love Die Young Valet

Author:Plautus

“Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.”

Mind Hard Science Death Desire Dying Perception Flesh Senses Impression Release Puppets Impermanence

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.”

Source: A Wodehouse Bestiary

“Death is not a blotting-out of existence, a final escape from life; nor is death the door to immortality. He who has fled his Self in earthly joys will not recapture It amidst the gossamer charms of an astral world. There he merely accumulates finer perceptions and more sensitive responses to the beautiful and the good, which are one. It is on the anvil of this gross earth that struggling man must hammer out the imperishable gold of spiritual identity.”

Men World Self Earth Beautiful Spiritual Death Joy Existence Struggle Doors Identity Perception Gold Response Finals Immortality Sensitive Charm Gross Hammers Anvils

Book:Autobiography of a Yogi

Source: Autobiography of a Yogi

“To put it crudely but graphically, the monkey who did not have a realistic perception of the tree branch he jumped for was soon a dead monkey-and therefore did not become one of our ancestors.”

Science Death Tree Perception Branches Realistic Ancestor Monkeys Tree Branches

Author:George Gaylord Simpson