A Quote by Samuel Alexander

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

Samuel Alexander

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Samuel Alexander
Australian - Philosopher
January 6, 1859 - September 13, 1938

To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.

Henri Bergson

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

To perceive means to immobilize. To say this is to say that we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.

Henri Bergson

In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived.

Samuel Alexander

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

You must consider, when reading this treatise, that mental perception, because connected with matter, is subject to conditions similar to those to which physical perception is subject.

Maimonides

Power is the thing that holds a band of perception together, and a band of perception is life for those who perceive in that band. If the band of perception were to go away, they would not exist.

Frederick Lenz

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

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

What we're seeking to do is internalize perception. Perception is very much involved with the senses and the mental processes and the emotional processes.

Frederick Lenz

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.

John Drinkwater

The perception of what a thing is and the perception of what it means are not separate, either.

James J. Gibson

The phrase 'perception is reality' is overused generally. But perception can be reality in monetary policy. The bond market doesn't act merely on what it sees. It acts on what it expects of the Fed or the government.

Amity Shlaes

Perception is a wave. You change as your perception of something changes because you define yourself as a reflection of whatever you happen to perceive.

Frederick Lenz

Reality is ultimately a selective act of perception and interpretation. A shift in our perception and interpretation enables us to break old habits and awaken new possibilities for balance, healing, and transformation.