Preception Quotes

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George Eliot
“She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception.”
George Eliot, Middlemarch

Lloyd Alexander
“Is a man truly what he see himself to be?'

'Only if what he sees is true.”
Lloyd Alexander, Taran Wanderer

Jim  Butcher
“Gwen frowned, "I assure you, sir, it is quite cool."

"It isn't," Ferus replied. "what you feel is the etheric energy that courses through the crystal. But your sensation of it is . . . something your mind was not sure what to do with, when you first encountered it. A wonderful place the mind, but if it has any kind of disappointing failure it's that it always attempts to put new things into the context of things which are familiar to it. So your mind apparently decided, upon encountering this new sensation, that it might just as well label it 'cold' and get on with your day.”
Jim Butcher, The Aeronaut's Windlass

Jim  Butcher
“There is but one reality; that is true - but the two of you experience it in slightly different ways. The older you get, I should think, the more you will come to understand that the universe is very much a looking glass.”
Jim Butcher, The Aeronaut's Windlass

“The beauty of life is manifested within our spirituality, preceptive to changes and adaptive to the ever-evolving world around us.”
Husam Wafaei, Honourable Defection