While [Plato] affirmed with emphasis that the place of the individual in society should not be determined by birth or wealth or any conventional status, but by his own nature as discovered in the process of education, he had no perception of the uniqueness of individuals. For him they fall by nature into classes, and into a very small number of classes at that.
Everyone in the Lotus Eaters is so concerned with appearances, but there's an emptiness under the surface that they're trying to ignore. We talked about the theme of perception versus reality a lot with mirrors and masks what people were wearing - and we shot on two formats; we shot it on film and on digital, and a lot of the night-time scenes are film, and it looks better, and people can put on a mask and they can go out there and show an artifice to the world.
The media we surround ourselves with allows us to manufacture our own experience every day, which is a perception of the world that is our own invention entirely, whether it is on social media or what we choose to absorb. This was very different when I was a kid, like generations before us we were exposed to things that were not entirely on our terms. We had to wrestle with and find the relationship with the world around you. It was literal experience, unlike the form of protracted psychic masturbation that is the digital world we live in.
I can hear those glances that you think are silent.
Laying out grounds. . . may be considered as a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting. . . . it is to assist Nature in moving the affections. . . the affections of those who have the deepest perception of the beauty of Nature.
Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people's perception of the gospel.
Resemblances are the shadows of differences. Different people see different similarities and similar differences.
You must look most intimately and discover for yourself; then it is your own, not somebody else’s, not something that you have been told, because there is no teacher and no follower.
People want much the same things, but they have been formed by history to have a particular perception of the other.
Sensorial perception, for example, certainly occurs with greater or less accuracy according to the degree of interest; it is constantly given other directions by the change of external stimuli and by ideas.
Nothing is more destructive than the gap between people's perceptions of their own day-to-day economic well-being and what politicians and statisticians are telling them about the economy
There are people who want awards because it changes the perception of the audience. But I'm not into all that.
Learn to see, and then you'll know that there is no end to the new worlds of our vision.
The really explicit phrase is doors of perception.
Bank One has got one of the best credit card divisions,. . . The perception of investors is that financial services stocks are affected by interest rates and they're not.
Miracles are a shift in perception.
When you change your thoughts and perception, you change the way you live.
If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
I've decided I can't really control people's perceptions of me. All I can do is decide on what I work on and how hard I work on it.
I perceive that we inhabitants of New England live this mean life that we do because our vision does not penetrate the surface ofthings. We think that that is which appears to be.