In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one's life.
By doubting we are led to enquire, and by enquiry we perceive the truth.
The universe is made up of an endless ocean of life itself. It is an endless ocean of itself. And for a time it binds itself together in particularized forms. Those forms have perception and they perceive themselves as being separate.
You cannot describe it or draw it. You cannot praise it enough or perceive it. No place can be found in which to put the Original Face; it will not disappear even when the universe is destroyed.
Wisdom is the power to perceive the best ends to aim at and the best means for reaching those ends.
I cannot. . . perceive any ground for hoping that any practical good would, while the funding system exists in its present extent, result from the adoption of any of those projects, which have professed to have in view what is called Parliamentary Reform. . . when the funding system, from whatever cause, shall cease to operate upon civil and political liberty, there will be no need of projects for parliamentary reform. The parliament will, as far as shall be necessary, then reform itself.
Attention is the ability we have to discriminate and to focus only on that which we want to perceive.
I must admit that many humans have a strong need to perceive life as in some sense benign and potentially happy. It is also evident that this need cannot be met if we do not experience a salvific change in consciousness, which allows us to perceive a greater, happier reality beyond the world of matter and sense.
Talk with M. Hermite. He never evokes a concrete image, yet you soon perceive that the more abstract entities are to him like living creatures.
The world you perceive is made of consciousness; what you call matter is consciousness itself.
In any election, it's important that the public perceives that the election is held fairly.
Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.
Like all people, we perceive the version of reality that our culture communicates. Like others having or living in more than one culture, we get multiple, often opposing messages. The coming together of two self-consistent but habitually incomparable frames of reference causes un choque, a cultural collision.
When you perceive that problems serve a purpose in your life, you will recognize that problems are opportunities in disguise.
When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth.
Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy and the quoted tattle merely the arrow.
Labels are boring and often have nothing to with the person; it is just the way others perceive you, or choose to perceive you.
The good life of any river may depend on the perception of its music; and the preservation of some music to perceive.
We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described.
So long as we perceive this world in motion, we have to conceive will behind it.