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"If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world."
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"If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite."
"All shoes have value but shoes do not have same value."
"What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is they look down at people who are engaged in manual labour."
"How we choose to perceive affects how we partake of reality, narrowly or completely."
"Our natures own predilections and antipathies alike strange. There are people from whom we secretly shrink, whom we would personally avoid, though reason confesses that they are good people: there are others with faults of temper, &c., evident enough, beside whom we live content, as if the air about them did us good."
"I don't know what I ate, but I felt immensely better after the first mouthful. It occurred to me that my vision of the fig-tree and all the fat figs that withered and fell to the earth might well have arisen from the profound void of an empty stomach."
"Our hearts are not stones. A stone may disintegrate in time and lose its outward form. But hearts never disintegrate. They have no outward form, and whether good or evil, we can always communicate them to one another."
"Changing your perception will alter your interpretations and therefore, your reality. If you feel like you're hitting a wall because you simply don't understand something, or another person has a different approach, keep your mind open and willing to reinterpret it with fresh eyes, more information, a change in position, or a new perspective."
"You perception of a person, place, or thing may not be accurate. Just because it looks good does not mean it is good and vice versa. Always be aware of your surroundings. Pay attention to the people, places, and things around you. Don't allow your misperception to put you in an uncomfortable situation."
"We don't need eyes to judge people's beauty, but unfortunately we judge them as we see."
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"It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed "Wisdom." And then I know exactly what is going to follow: "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.""
"I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment."
"Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again."
"Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness."
"The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question."
"Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing."
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