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“What struck me most in England was the perception that only those works which have a practical tendency awake attention and command respect, while the purely scientific, which possess far greater merit are almost unknown. And yet the latter are the proper source from which the others flow. Practice alone can never lead to the discovery of a truth or a principle. In Germany it is quite the contrary. Here in the eyes of scientific men no value, or at least but a trifling one, is placed upon the practical results. The enrichment of science is alone considered worthy attention.”

“Man is not himself only...He is all that he sees; all that flows to him from a thousand sources...He is the land, the lift of its mountain lines, the reach of its valleys.”

Men Humans Nature Lines Seeing Land Source Thousand Mountain Perception Flow Lifts Novelists Valleys Playwright

Author:Mary Hunter Austin

“Man is appealed to be guided in his acts, not merely by love, which is always personal, or at best tribal, but by his perception of his oneness with each human being. In the practice of mutual aid, which we can re-trace to the earliest beginnings of evolution, we thus find the positive and undoubted origin of our ethical conceptions; and we can affirm that in the ethical progress of man, mutual support- not mutual struggle- has had the leading part.”

Men Humans Human Beings Practice Support Struggle Progress Evolution Perception Ethics Aids Oneness Mutual Ethical Conception Mutual Aid Mutual Support

Book:Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution

Source: Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution

“All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.”

Men Love Hard Accepting Perception And Love Developing Contemplation Hard Times Our Society Repressed Sixth Sense

Author:Paulo Coelho

“Man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.”

Men Seeing Perception All Things Infinity Caverns Chinks Doors Of Perception

Book:The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake

Source: The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake

“Widen your shriveled heart, make the interests of others your own and serve them as much as you can by sympathy, kindness, presents and so forth. So long as one enjoys the things of this world and has needs and wants, it is necessary to minister to the needs of one's fellow men. Otherwise one cannot be called a human being. Whenever you have the opportunity, give to the poor, feed the hungry, nurse the sick - do service as a religious duty and you will come to know by direct perception that the person served, the one who serves and the act of service are separate only in appearance.”

“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

“Solve all your problems through meditation. Exchange unprofitable religious speculations for actual God-contact. Clear your mind of dogmatic theological debris; let in the fresh, healing waters of direct perception. Attune yourself to the active inner Guidance; the Divine Voice has the answer to every dilemma of life. Through man's ingenuity for getting himself into trouble appears to be endless, the Infinite Succor is no less resourceful.”

“Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being.”

Source: The Portable Emerson: New Edition

“So now the perception is, yes, women are here to stay. And when I'm sometimes asked when will there be enough [women on the Supreme Court]? And I say when there are nine, people are shocked. But there'd been nine men, and nobody's ever raised a question about that.”

People Men Sometimes Enough Perception Court Raised Supreme Nine Supreme Court Shocked Court Justice

Author:Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“Without total freedom, every perception, every objective regard, is twisted. It is only the man who is totally free that can look and understand immediately. Freedom implies really, doesn't it, the total emptying of the mind. To completely empty the whole content of the mind — that is real freedom.”

“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

“To interpose the threat of physical destruction between a man and his perception of reality, is to negate and paralyze his means of survival to force him to act against his own judgment, is like forcing him to act against his own sight”

Men Mean Reality Force Judgment Perception Survival Destruction Sight Threat Perception Reality

Book:Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“One of the things we learn in movies directed by men is what the 'fantasy woman' is. What we learn in movies directed by women is what real women are about. I don't think that men see things wrong and women right, just that we do see things differently.”

Thinking Men Different Real Women Fantasy Learning Seeing Directors Perception Men And Women Cinema Filmmaker Movie Portraying Portrayal Real Women Women Right

Book:Jane Campion: Interviews

Source: Jane Campion: Interviews

“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

“Education has for its object the formation of character. To curb restive propensities, to awaken dormant sentiments, to strengthen the perceptions, and cultivate the tastes, to encourage this feeling and repress that, so as finally to develop the child into a man of well proportioned and harmonious nature, this is alike the aim of parent and teacher.”

Men Wells Children Character Feelings Parent Teacher Objects Taste Perception Aim Sentiments Formation Harmonious Curb Propensity Dormant Parents And Teachers

Book:Social Statics; Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, & the First of Them Developed

Source: Social Statics; Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, & the First of Them Developed

“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

“The Principle which gives life dwells in us, and without us, is undying and beneficent, is not heard or seen or smelt, but it is perceived by the man who desires perception.”

Men Giving Desire Principles Heard He Man Perception

Author:Mabel Collins

“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

“If man did not exist as a world-spanning receptive realm of perception, if he were not engaged in this capacity, nothing at all could exist. 'Being,' in its traditional usage, means 'presence' and 'persistence.' To achieve presence, and thereby being, an entity requires some sort of open realm in which presence and persistence can take place. Thus an open realm of perception like that of human existence is the one being that makes being possible.”

Ifs Men World Humans Mean Existence Achieve Perception Capacity Traditional Persistence Realms Engaged Entity Human Existence Receptive Usage

Author:Medard Boss

“Character: The ability to carry out a worthy decision after the emotion of making that decision has passed. Character simply stated is doing what you said you were going to do. If you develop a reputation for that, do you have any idea the effect that has on self-perception? Its immense, just immense. The Savior was a man of character. He did everything he said he was going to do.”

Ifs Men Said Ideas Self Character Wisdom Success Peace Ability Decision Emotion Effects Perception Worthy Reputation Savior Immense Self Perception

Author:Hyrum W. Smith

“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

“Those born blind cannot see; similarly blind are those in the grip of lust. Proud men have no perception of evil; and those bent on acquiring riches see no sin in their actions.”

Men Eye Action Evil Born Sin Proud Perception Blind Riches Lust Bent Blindness Proud Man

Author:Chanakya

“Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life, transmitting man's reasonable perception into feeling.”

Men Humans Art Matter Feelings Pleasure Perception Art Is Human Life Reasonable Organs Amusement Solace

Book:WHAT IS ART? & WHEREIN IS TRUTH IN ART? (Meditations on Aesthetics & Literature): On the Significance of Science and Art, Shakespeare and the Drama, The Works of Guy De Maupassant, A. Stockham'sTokology, Amiel's Diary, S. T. Seménov's Peasant Stories, Stop and Think!...

Source: WHAT IS ART? & WHEREIN IS TRUTH IN ART? (Meditations on Aesthetics & Literature): On the Significance of Science and Art, Shakespeare and the Drama, The Works of Guy De Maupassant, A. Stockham'sTokology, Amiel's Diary, S. T. Seménov's Peasant Stories, Stop and Think!...