Quotes About Perception

The plain fact is that if you don't have a problem, you create one. If you don't have a problem you don't feel that you are living.

Niggas be lookin shife, so I look shife back.

Bilgi sahibi olmadan, fikir sahibi olunmaz.

Love tells us many things that are not so.

We do not want to be seen as machines. Hence we tend to reject statements like the one by Karl Vogt, a 19th century German philosopher, who stated that "the brain produces thoughts as the liver produces bile, or the kidneys produce urine".

Wörter können wie Gift wirken. […] "Sie auch hier?" So ein harmloses Sätzchen, das aus einem freundlichen Mund das genaue Gegenteil besagen könnte. Wer das Wort verabreicht und wie, entscheidet über die Wirkung: Gift oder Gabe, Gnade oder Gnadenstoß.

in the same sense in which Kant held that the empirical sciences depend on some mental abilities – intuition and categories

In general, for many scholars writing today, what is problematic about consciousness is its "phenomenal quality" or the fact that "there is something it is like" to be conscious (Nagel, 1974). Piaget does not address this issue head-on but rather through addressing the more important problem of how subjects develop a meaningful understanding of themselves and the world.

they may produce a reproduction which differs as little as possible from external reality

In contrast to empiricist theories, in which knowledge is derived from perception, Piaget emphasized the role of action and operations (transformation) in the construction of knowledge.

Because psychologists generally take knowledge as unproblematic, the complexity of Piagetian theory seems simply superfluous.

During this substage, infants start to reciprocally assimilate or coordinate two different schemes. For example, infants grasp what they are seeing, and they move in front of their eyes what they are grasping.

According to Piaget, infants' reactions to the bottle or other stimuli cannot be explained by external stimulus-response relations because the stimuli have a meaning for the infants to begin with; without this meaning, it would not be possible to explain why these stimuli become relevant or how the associations could be confirmed or strengthened (OI, p. 127).

Such is Kant's (1787/1933, B180) "schematism of understanding," though he candidly confessed that how this occurred was a mystery "in the depths of the human soul.

The fact is I think I am a verb instead of a personal pronoun. A verb is anything that signifies to be; to do; to suffer. I signify all three.

I'd like to classify my life as a romantic comedy. Unfortunately I feel it's probably more like a TV reality show.

The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

You don't fit in with people's expectations. You're not quite the same as they are, and because of that you make them feel uncomfortable. But instead of trying to understand what you are, for yourself, they dislike you for making them feel uncomfortable.

Tell a lie often enough, someone will believe it." "It's worse than that, Kirsten. Tell a lie often enough, and it stands a good chance of becoming the truth.

Further, there is no trustworthy standard by which we can separate the "real" from the "unreal" aspects of phenomena. Such standards as exist are conventional: and correspond to convenience, not to truth. It is no argument to say that most men see the world in much the same way, and that this "way" is the true standard of reality: though for practical purposes we have agreed that sanity consists in sharing the hallucinations of our neighbours.

As if one was mistaken in believing that love protects life. As if it were a lie that love is a blessing.

Your skin was song. Your advice was:see.

All the other colors are just colors, but purple seems to have a soul. Purple is not just a noun and an adjective but also a verb — when you look at it, it's looking back at you.