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"To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself."
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"Materialistic perception of life makes us spiritually shortsighted."
"Beauty is only there when you have the ability to see and appreciate it."
"Close your eyes to see the world with your imaginative mind."
"Light wears out the eyes but does not wear out the soul."
"What other people think is important to them. What you think has great importance to you."
"Maya (deceit) means that one cannot see the nature of things as they are but sees them in a different form."
"We each project to others a reflection of the world which includes our choices of perception."
"If your life is founded on what you can see then your success will be insignificant and very brief."
"We do not actually know other nations, we only know our judgements."
"The essential Not-self could be perceived very clearly in things and in livingcreatures on the hither side of good and evil. In human beings it was visible only when they were inrepose, their minds untroubled, their bodies motionless."
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"An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis."
"Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable."
"The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind."
"I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment."
"To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly."
"When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived images of things outside the image of our body, and thus replace perception within the things themselves."
"We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate."
"Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments."
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