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Mon 15 Aug 2022

Gibberish

Posted by PJ under nonsense, perception, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“People dull their wits with gibberish,
and cannot use their ears and eyes.”

—Heraclitus, Fragment 4 (tr. Brooks Haxton)

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Desus and Mero, Beyoncé, or the Marine Corps Marching Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Wed 29 Jun 2022

Prism

Posted by PJ under empathy, perception, quote of the day, reality, understanding
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Random quote of the day:

“Empathy begins with understanding life from another person’s perspective. Nobody has an objective experience of reality. It’s all through our own individual prisms.”

—Sterling K. Brown, Variety, March 1, 2016

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Wed 13 Oct 2021

Artist

Posted by PJ under art, artists, perception, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“If you’re an artist, you’re guilty of a crime: not that you’re aware, which is bad enough, but that you see things other people don’t admit are there.”

—James Baldwin, LIFE magazine, May 24, 1963

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Desus and Mero, Beyoncé, or the Marine Corps Marching Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

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Tue 7 Sep 2021

Tree

Posted by PJ under perception, quote of the day, trees
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Random quote of the day:

“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way…As a man is, so he sees.”

—William Blake, letter to Rev. John Trusler, Summer 1799

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Desus and Mero, Beyoncé, or the Marine Corps Marching Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Fri 16 Apr 2021

Seeing

Posted by PJ under perception, quote of the day, seeing, understanding
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Random quote of the day:

“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”

—Robertson Davies, Tempest-Tost

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Tue 9 Jun 2020

Chappelle

Posted by PJ under black lives matter, perception, quote of the day
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Mon 9 Jan 2017

Worlds

Posted by PJ under perception, quote of the day, the world
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Random quote of the day:

“The enchanting, and sometimes terrifying, thing is that the world can be so many things to so many different souls. That it can be, and is, all these at one and the same time.”

—Henry Miller, Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymous Bosch

 

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Lucy and Ethel, Justin Bieber, or the Kardashian Klan. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

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Mon 15 Aug 2016

Invisibilia

Posted by PJ under djinn, perception, quote of the day, the senses
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Random quote of the day:

“[I]f we assume, as we must, that there are living organisms whose biological premises are entirely different from our own, it is only logical to assume that our physical senses can establish contact with them only under very exceptional circumstances: hence the description of them as ‘invisible beings.’”

—Muhammad Asad, “On the Term and Concept of Jinn,” The Message of the Quran, Appendix 3 (tr. The Monotheist Group)

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Fri 29 Jul 2016

Perception

Posted by PJ under perception, physics, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“The very fact that our vision of the world can be falsified as a result of further movement, observation, probing, etc., implies that there is more in the world than what we have perceived and known.”

—David Bohm, “Physics and Perception,” in The Essential David Bohm, ed. Lee Nichol

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Thu 12 May 2016

Seeing things

Posted by PJ under perception, quote of the day, seeing
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Random quote of the day:

“We usually see only the things we are looking for—so much so that we sometimes see them where they are not.”

—Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind and Other Aphorisms

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