We perceive no charms that are not sharpened, puffed out, and inflated by artifice. Those which glide along naturally and simply easily escape a sight so gross as ours.
Your self is the universe, and you perceive the universe through a state of mind.
To perceive victory when it is known to all is not really skilful. . . It does not take much strength to lift a hair, it does not take sharp eyes to see the sun and moon, it does not take sharp ears to hear the thunderclap.
I promise you this: at the end of your days, you will discover that the things you now perceive to be the big things in your life will be seen as little things, and all those things that you now believe to be the little things, you will realize were really the big things.
Education is the ability to perceive the hidden connections between phenomena.
To be contemporary actually means to be an artist. [But] I do not feel contemporary in my work. I perceive my work as old-fashioned. It does not have a frame of actuality in our time or locality.
I'm interested in that way we perceive things, and that was part of what I was getting into in painting - the idea of perception and how information goes through our heads and it comes out another way.
I never met a librarian worth his or her salt who didn't perceive my passion for books.
Walk to work, even if it's four miles. Ride a bike to work. Drive a different way. On your way there, try to find beauty. You'd be surprised how much more of the neighborhood you can perceive and experience when you're looking for unique spots of beauty.
We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
We often boast that we are never bored; but yet we are so conceited that we do not perceive how often we bore others.
I do not perceive even one other thing, O monks, that when undeveloped and uncultivated entails such great suffering as the mind. The mind when undeveloped and uncultivated entails great suffering.
The reason why you do history, and particularly why you do war, is that you want to make sure that in the next war, some lessons were learned. There's a saying: "History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme. " Or Ecclesiastes: "What has been will be again. What has been done will be done again. " Human nature always superimposes itself - its strength and its frailty over the rush of chaos of ongoing events - and we can perceive patterns and themes and motifs.
If you are psychic you can perceive that someone may love you and they can't show it. Someone may seek to harm you and they mask it.
The lover is drawn by the thing loved, as the sense is by that which it perceives.
When the mind is calm, how quickly, how smoothly, how beautifully you will perceive everything.
Time is the supreme illusion. It is but the inner prism by which we decompose being and life, the mode under which we perceive successively what is simultaneous in idea.
There's no beauty that you could perceive or create if it were not already within you.
How aware are we of our own inner life, our spirituality-something so intangible yet so priceless? How much effort do we make to perceive that which is not obvious, which can neither be seen nor heard? I believe the exploration and enrichment of the human spirit is what determines our very humanity. Such enrichment provides an inner compass that can lead civilizations to greatness.
I think the supernatural is a catch-all for everything we don't understand about the vast other parts of life that we cannot perceive.