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Perception Quotes
"Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world."
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Arthur Schopenhauer
"The world is my idea."
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Arthur Schopenhauer
"The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him."
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Arthur Schopenhauer
"We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever."
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Carl Sagan
"There is no story that is not true, the world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others "
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Chinua Achebe
"Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them"
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David Hume
"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream"
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Edgar Allan Poe
"What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it"
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting."
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
"There is no truth Only perception"
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Gustave Flaubert
"People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for."
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Harper Lee
"Try to be one of those on whom nothing is lost"
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Henry James
"A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities."
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Herman Melville
"When we say we know what we are talking about, we mean that we know what we think about something, rather than knowing the facts"
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Ian McEwan
"Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets"
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Jacques Derrida
"A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart."
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen."
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John Steinbeck
"The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing"
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Jorge Luis Borges
"Once you label me you negate me."
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Søren Kierkegaard
"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change"
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Wayne Dyer
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