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“Things which we see are not by themselves what we see ... It remains completely unknown to us what the objects may be by themselves and apart from the receptivity of our senses. We know nothing but our manner of perceiving them.”

Knows May Objects Perception Remains Senses Receptivity

Book:Critique of pure reason

Source: Critique of pure reason

“The ability to know that your perceptions are accurate has to happen without others' validation. Intuition is not the result of diet, rituals, or wind chimes. It's the natural consequence of having self-esteem, the greatest power you can have. With self-esteem, your life can broaden into an adventure because you can know in your gut that you can handle the unknown. And you can handle helping others without fear, which is true liberation.”

“Oh my God. Lift me up out of this illusion, Lord. Heal my perception that I might know only reality and only you.”

Knows Reality Might Lord Perception Illusion Heal Lifts Lift Me Up

Author:Bill Hicks

“Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, an eye which does not respond to the name of everything but which must know each object encountered in life through an adventure of perception. How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of ‘Green?’ How many rainbows can light create for the untutored eye?”

Source: Philip Taaffe: composite nature : a conversation with Stan Brakhage

“We both know that, my friend, but a man's perception soon becomes his reality.”

Knows Men Reality Perception My Friends

Book:The Left Behind Collection

Source: The Left Behind Collection

“Do what you know and perception is converted into character.”

Knows Character Perception Thrive

Book:The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations

Source: The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations

“I know many members of our community steer clear of Wall Street because of the perception that the stock market is risky, but I am convinced the biggest risk of all is not taking one.”

Knows Growth Community Clear Risk Streets Wall Members Perception Convinced Our Community Steers Business Growth

Author:Mellody Hobson

“I kinda like messing with perception a little bit. Kind of what drugs do sometimes, and drinking. I mean, you know, you mess with your mind a little bit to see life from different angles. Within reason, if you can handle it.”

Ifs Knows Mind Kind Mean Littles Different Sometimes Reason Bits Drug Perception Little Bit Drinking Handle Mess Angle Different Angles

Author:Julian Casablancas

“Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world. Our hearing extends to a small distance. Our sight is impeded by intervening bodies and shadows. To know each other we must reach beyond the sphere of our sense perceptions. We must transmit our intelligence, travel, transport the materials and transfer the energies necessary for our existence.”

Source: The Nikola Tesla Treasury

“You are primal awareness. Life is only primal awareness. Between two thoughts or two perceptions you are. You know moments in your life when a thought completely disappears into silence, but still you are.”

Knows Stills Two Moments Life Is Silence Awareness Perception Disappear Primal

Author:Jean Klein

“Monks, we who look at the whole and not just the part, know that we too are systems of interdependence, of feelings, perceptions, thoughts, and consciousness all interconnected. Investigating in this way, we come to realize that there is no me or mine in any one part, just as a sound does not belong to any one part of the lute.”

Knows Way Looks Doe Whole Feelings Sound Realizing Consciousness Mines Perception Monk Interdependence Interconnected Investigating

Author:Gautama Buddha

“This one question-'What do I know for certain?'-is tremendously powerful. When you look deeply into this question, it actually destroys your world. It destroys your whole sense of self, and it's meant to. You come to see that everything you think you know about yourself, everything you think you know about the world, is based on assumptions, beliefs, and opinions-things that you believe because you were taught or told they were true. Until we start to see these false perceptions for what they really are, consciousness will be imprisoned within the dream state.”

Source: The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment