Best perception & language Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“They get you when you're young. When you are a kid, you are conditioned. You are taught language, customs, and right and wrong. You are filled with fears. This conditioning interferes with your psychic perception.”

Inspirational Kids Young Language Seeing Taught Buddhism Perception Filled Customs Interfere Psychics Conditioning

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When we say 'time', I believe we mean at least two things. We mean changes. And we mean something unchangeable. We mean something that moves . but against an unmoving background. And vice versa.Animals can sense changes. But consciousness of time involves the double sense of constancy and change. Which can only be attributed to those who give expression to it. And that can only be done through language, and only man has language.The perception of time and language are inextricably bound up with one another.”

Men Giving Believe Mean Two Done Moving Language I Believe Animal Consciousness Expression Perception Bounds Vices Backgrounds Two Things Vice Versa Constancy Unchangeable

Book:Borderliners: A Novel

Source: Borderliners: A Novel

“Language always preserves a play or figure/ground relation between experience, and perception and its replay in expression.”

Play Language Figures Expression Perception Relation Preserves Replay

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“If Zen is approached with the usual mental attitude, it will seem quite incomprehensible. Our average Western intellectuality would consider its paradoxical language simply as a play upon words. Its full significance is revealed only when we approach it in a different manner, making our minds available to the new processes of inner perception which it suggests.”

Ifs Mind Different Play Seems Language Process Attitude Perception Approach Western Average Available Significance Usual Paradoxical Mental Attitude New Processes

Book:Living Zen

Source: Living Zen

“Faculty Psychology is getting to be respectable again after centuries of hanging around with phrenologists and other dubious types. By faculty psychology I mean, roughly, the view that many fundamentally different kinds of psychological mechanisms must be postulated in order to explain the facts of mental life. Faculty psychology takes seriously the apparent heterogeneity of the mental and is impressed by such prima facie differences as between, say, sensation and perception, volition and cognition, learning and remembering, or language and thought.”

“Language is our body and our breath, our world and our thought, our perception and even out unconscious.”

World Art Philosophy Body Language History Perception Breaths Unconscious Our World Our Thoughts

Author:Philippe Sollers

“In I Praise My Destroyer, Diane Ackerman demonstrates once again her love for the specific language that rises from the juncture of self and the natural world, and her skillful use of that language. Whether she turns her attention to the act of eating an apricot 'the color of shame and dawn,' or to 'the omnipotence of light,' or to grief when 'All the greens of summer have blown apart,' her linking of unique images, her energetic wit and whimsy, her compassionate investment in life, always bring new pleasures and perceptions to the reader.”

“Typography tended to alter language from a means of perception and exploration to a portable commodity.”

Mean Language Perception Exploration Commodity Machinery Typography

Book:The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man

Source: The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man

“For everything outside the phenomenal world, language can only be used allusively, but never even approximately in a comparative way, since, corresponding as it does to the phenomenal world, it is concerned only with property and its relations.”

World Way Doe Used Language Perception Concerned Relation Property Phenomenal Corresponding

Book:Shorter works [of] Franz Kafka

Source: Shorter works [of] Franz Kafka

“Without precise meanings behind words, politicians and elites can obscure reality and condition people to reflexively associate certain words with positive or negative perceptions. In other words, unpleasant facts can be hidden behind purposely meaningless language.”

People Facts Reality Certain Language Behinds Conditions Politician Perception Negative Meaningless Elites Obscure Precise Associates

Author:Ron Paul

“Language is virtually always pathological; hence the solution is to move as fast and far as possible from language to experience, from linguistic to experimental or psychological philosophy. In order to know that we are not in the linguistic maze, we need to determine, according to Berkeley, whether the things we are talking about exist; hence we need to look for the relevant perceptions. For him, this usually means retiring into himself and trying to imagine whether x exists, having formed the best definition possible of x.”

Knows Needs Trying Looks Mean Philosophy Moving Order Language Talking Imagine Perception Solutions Definitions Determine Psychological Retiring Relevant Mazes Berkeley

Author:David Berman

“It's nice to represent to other people in the world that Americans actually do know what's happening in the world, can speak other languages and are conscientious. The perception quite often is that we don't know what's beyond our county line.”

People Knows World Speak Language Lines Nice Perception Happenings County Often Is

Author:Cary Fukunaga

“Understanding Meronian - my own language - is a psychic process which succeeds when we break through the boundaries of comprehension and reach for what's beyond our limited perception. Its ambiguousness is related to the ambiguousness of music, and it doesn't guide us too much towards semantic domains. It contains all the necessary meaning required in our rock music.”

Language Understanding Break Succeed Perception Boundaries Rock Music

Author:Jussi Lehtisalo

“Don't separate the mind from the body. Don't separate even character - you can't. Our unit of existence is a body, a physical, tangible, sensate entity with perceptions and reactions that express it and form it simultaneously. Disease is one of our languages. Doctors understand what disease has to say about itself. It's up to the person with the disease to understand what the disease has to say to her.”

Mind Persons Character Body Form Language Existence Disease Perception Doctors Reactions Entity Units Tangible

Book:The Camera My Mother Gave Me

Source: The Camera My Mother Gave Me

“The only reality we can ever truly know is that of our perceptions, our own consciousness, while that consciousness, and thus our entire reality, is made of nothing but signs and symbols. Nothing but language. Even God requires language before conceiving the Universe. See Genesis: “In the beginning was the Word.”

Knows Made Reality Universe Language Consciousness Perception Symbols Genesis Conceiving Signs And Symbols

Author:Alan Moore

“Language is the biggest barrier to human progress because language is an encyclopedia of ignorance. Old perceptions are frozen into language and force us to look at the world in an old fashioned way.”

World Way Humans Looks Language Force Progress Ignorance Communication Perception Barriers Old Fashioned Frozen Human Progress Encyclopedia

Author:Edward de Bono

“The fact that man produces a concept "I" besides the totality of his mental and emotional experiences or perceptions does not prove that there must be any specific existence behind such a concept. We are succumbing to illusions produced by our self-created language, without reaching a better understanding of anything. Most of so-called philosophy is due to this kind of fallacy.”

Source: Einstein's God: Albert Einstein's Quest as a Scientist and as a Jew to Replace a Forsaken God

“The problems of society will also be the problems of the predominant language of that society. It is the carrier of its perceptions, its attitudes, and its goals, for through it, the speakers absorb entrenched attitudes. The guilt of English then must be recognized and appreciated before its continued use can be advocated.”

Use Problem Language Goal Attitude Communication Perception Guilt Speakers Appreciated Carrier

Author:Njabulo S Ndebele

“As a scientist, objectivity is one of my most deeply held values. If we could just try harder, I once thought, surely we could each see the world as others see it and learn to respect one another's views more readily. But I learned from the Pirahas, our expectations, our culture, and our experiences can render even perceptions of the environment nearly incommensurable cross-culturally.”

Ifs World Life Trying Values Culture Language Views Environment Lessons Perception Expectations Crosses Scientist Harder Objectivity

Book:Don't Sleep, There are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle

Source: Don't Sleep, There are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle

“We speak the love language, they speak from pain and anguish. Some don't love theyselves, so they perception is tainted.”

Pain Speak Language Perception Hip Hop Rap Anguish Tainted

Author:Talib Kweli

“The life of a poet lies not merely in the finite language-dance of expression but in the nearly infinite combinations of perception and memory combined with the sensitivity to what is perceived and remembered.”

Lying Language Memories Poet Expression Perception Infinite Combination Remembered Sensitivity Finite

Book:The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion

Source: The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion

“What you hear depends on how you focus your ear. We're not talking about inventing a new language, but rather inventing new perceptions of existing languages.”

Language Talking Focus Listening Depends Perception Ears Inventing Not Talking

Author:Philip Glass

“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”

Source: Tempest-tost

“If, in the Judaic perception, the language of the Adamic was that of love, the grammars of fallen man are those of the legal code.”

Ifs Men Language Perception Code Fallen Grammar

Book:No Passion Spent

Source: No Passion Spent

“Language is not a handmaiden to perception; it is perception; it gives shape to what would otherwise be inert and dead.”

Giving Language Shapes Perception

Author:Stanley Fish

“In design man becomes what he is. Animals have language and perception as well, but they do not design.”

Men Wells Language Animal Design Perception

Book:The World as Design: Writings of Design

Source: The World as Design: Writings of Design

“We feel certain that the extraterrestrial message is a mathematical code of some kind. Probably a number code. Mathematics is the one language we might conceivably have in common with other forms of intelligent life in the universe. As I understand it, there is no reality more independent of our perception and more true to itself than mathematical reality.”

Feels Kind Reality Might Form Certain Universe Language Common Numbers Perception Messages Intelligent Mathematics Independent Aliens Mathematical Code Ufo Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life

Author:Don DeLillo

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