A Quote by Erica Jong

Is perception equivalent to existence?

Erica Jong

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Equivalent Existence Perception

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Erica Jong
American - Novelist
Born: March 26, 1942

Perception not only defines existence but it creates existence. It gives it form. Without perception there is no existence.

Frederick Lenz

Molecules don't have patterns. You create a pattern by the perception of something. The continuity of awareness is your perceptual field. Existence only occurs through the act of perception.

Frederick Lenz

Dharma is the Truth that all of existence is. It does not disagree with anything. It is the perception of existence in its purest formlessness.

Frederick Lenz

Perception without the word, which is without thought, is one of the strangest phenomena. Then the perception is much more acute, not only with the brain, but also with all the senses. Such perception is not the fragmentary perception of the intellect nor the affair of the emotions. It can be called a total perception, and it is part of meditation.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

During long periods of history, the mode of human sense perception changes with humanity’s entire mode of existence. The manner in which human sense perception is organized, the medium in which it is accomplished, is determined not only by nature but by historical circumstances as well

Walter Benjamin

There is this perception that TV is glamorous and it is the pinnacle of your existence - I don't think it is.

Helen Baxendale

Philosophy... is the creative perception by the spirit of the meaning of human existence.

Nikolai Berdyaev

The bands of perception vary greatly. There is the human band of perception. There are lots of different bands of perception. Simply because we are in one band of perception, doesn't mean others are not there.

Frederick Lenz

The essence of sculpture is for me the perception of space, the continuum of our existence.

Isamu Noguchi

... This is the paradox of vision: Sharp perception softens our existence in the world.

Susan Griffin

Tantra is the perception of the oneness and the perfection of all things. Not just the perception of light, but the perception of darkness, seeing God in both beauty and horror.

Frederick Lenz

By helping to raise man above the level of bestial vegetation, faith contributes in reality to the securing and safeguarding of his existence. Take away from present-day mankind its education-based, religious-dogmatic principles- or, practically speaking, ethical-moral principles- by abolishing this religious education, but without replacing it by an equivalent, and the result will be a grave shock to the foundations of their existence.

Adolf Hitler

The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music.