“It's not that you get a cliché and then wiggle it about or use synonyms. You don't take an ordinary decorative paragraph and give it style. What you're trying to do is be faithful to your perceptions and transmit them as faithfully as you can. I say these sentences until they sound right. There's no objective reason why they're right. They just sound right to me.” GivingWritingTryingReasonUseSoundStylePerceptionOrdinarySentencesObjectivesReason WhyFaithfulParagraphTransmitBeing FaithfulSynonym Author:Martin Amis
“People hope that if they scream loudly enough about "values" then others will mistake them for serious, sensitive souls who have higher and nobler perceptions than ordinary people. Otherwise, why would they be screaming? Moral bitterness is a basic technique for endowing the idiot with dignity.” PeopleIfsSoulEnoughValuesMistakeMoralSeriousHigherPerceptionOrdinaryDignityTechniqueIdiotSensitiveBitternessScreamOrdinary People Author:Marshall McLuhan
“Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.” MenArtTwoThreeAbilityTalentHe ManMaterialsGeniusTenPerceptionOrdinaryCapacityPlusMultipleRegisterOrdinary Man Author:Ezra Pound
“In ordinary speech the words perception and sensation tend to be used interchangeably, but the psychologist distinguishes. Sensations are the items of consciousness--a color, a weight, a texture--that we tend to think of as simple and single. Perceptions are complex affairs that embrace sensation together with other, associated or revived contents of the mind, including emotions.” ThinkingMindTogetherUsedSimpleEmotionConsciousnessColorSpeechPerceptionOrdinaryWeightEmbraceComplexesIncludingAffairSensationsItemsTexturePsychologist Author:Jacques Barzun
“In certain almost supernatural states of the soul, the profundity of life reveals itself entirely in the spectacle, however ordinary it may be, before one's eyes. It becomes its symbol.” MaySoulStatesEyeCertainPerceptionOrdinarySymbolsProfundity Author:Charles Baudelaire
“The trouble is that the expression 'material thing' is functioning already, from the very beginning, simply as a foil for 'sense-datum'; it is not here given, and is never given, any other role to play, and apart from this consideration it would surely never have occurred to anybody to try to represent as some single kind of things the things which the ordinary man says that he 'perceives.” MenTryingKindPlayGivenRolesTroubleExpressionMaterialsPerceptionOrdinaryDataPerceiveConsiderationMaterial ThingsOrdinary ManFoils Author:J. L. Austin
“Ordinary mind includes eternal perceptions. Notice what you notice. Observe what's vivid. Catch yourself thinking. Vividness is self-selecting. And remember the future.” ThinkingMindSelfRememberEternalPerceptionOrdinaryVividVividness Author:Allen Ginsberg
“Do not forget that the value and interest of life is not so much to do conspicuous things...as to do ordinary things with the perception of their enormous value.” Life IsValuesInterestForgetPerceptionOrdinaryEnormousOrdinary Things Author:Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary man takes everything as a blessing or a curse.” MenChallengesDifferencesAttitudePositiveBlessingPerceptionOrdinaryExcellenceWarriorCurseOrdinary ManShamanismDon JuanJuanSpiritual WarriorWarrior Spirit Book:Tales of Power Source: Tales of Power
“[Aldous Huxley] compared the brain to a 'reducing valve'. In ordinary perception, the senses send an overwhelming flood of information to the brain, which the brain then filters down to a trickle it can manage for the purpose of survival in a highly competitive world. Man has become so rational, so utilitarian, that the trickle becomes most pale and thin. It is efficient, for mere survival, but it screens out the most wondrous part of man's potential experience without his even knowing it. We're shut off from our own world.” MenWorldPurposeBrainKnowingInformationPerceptionSurvivalOrdinaryMereScreensSensesRationalManageOverwhelmingEfficientPaleFloodReducingFiltersWondrousHuxleyUtilitarianValveKool Aid Book:The electric kool-aid acid test Source: The electric kool-aid acid test
“The first "station of separation" corresponds to the state of the ordinary man who perceives the universe as distinct from God. Starting from here, the initiatic itinerary leads the being first to extinction in the divine Unity, which abolishes all perception of created things. But spiritual realization, if it is complete, arrives afterwards at the "second station of separation" where the being perceives simultaneously the one in the multiple and the multiple in the one.” IfsMenFirstsStatesSpiritualSpiritSpiritualityUniverseDivinePerceptionOrdinaryUnityStartingSeparationRealizationPerceiveStationsMultipleExtinctionAbolishOrdinary Man Author:Abdelkader El Djezairi
“I thought the objects we value least because they were ubiquitous were actually the most extraordinary.” ValuesObjectsPerceptionOrdinaryExtraordinaryPainterUsualUbiquity Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and the inner world, not as they appear to an animal obsessed with words and notions, but as they are apprehended, directly and unconditionally, by Mind at Large-This is the experience of inestimable value to everyone.” WorldMindArtValuesHoursAnimalPerceptionOrdinaryNotionObsessedTimelessInner WorldRuts Book:Complete Essays: 1939-1956 Source: Complete Essays: 1939-1956
“When the waters of a lake are absolutely still, the lake reflects the trees, the sky, and everything around it perfectly. At the slightest breeze, with the smallest ripple in the waters, the lake reflects nothing but itself. To see another with clarity and objectivity, one first must master stillness. The slightest breeze of judgment or interpretation from the rational mind will create a ripple that shatters Awareness and returns us to ordinary perception.” MindFirstsStillsWaterTreeSkyAwarenessMastersReturnJudgmentPerceptionOrdinaryRationalClarityLakesInterpretationStillnessSmallestBreezeObjectivityRipple Author:Alberto Villoldo
“It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling.” WellsKnownJourneyStrangePerceptionOrdinaryAspectWell Known Author:Kenneth Koch