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"In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived."
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"When you are seeing a person, you are not really seeing him. You are seeing his reflection through the mirror of your mind."

"When you read between the lines, you must have bloody good eyesight because I can't see a bloody thing!"

"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."

"It was queer how sometimes a child's innocent eyes can see things that grown men are blind to."

"Things becomes invisible at the very moment I refuse to grant them importance. And while I am utterly ashamed to admit it, many of the most important things in my life are invisible."

"You could see her thoughts swimming around in her eyes, like fish - some bright, some dark, some fast, quick, some slow and easy, and sometimes, like when she looked up where Earth was, being nothing but colour and nothing else."

"We only listen to what we want to hear."

"What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is they look down at people who are engaged in manual labour."

"Sunglasses are the best invention of world.Its hide the eyes which speak more then lips."
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"It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment."


"The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental."


"But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation."


"The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception."


"When we come to images or memories or thoughts, speculation, while always closely related to practice, is more explicit, and it is in fact not immediately obvious that such processes can be described in any sense as practical."


"Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience."


"An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought."


"Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self."
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