Pastoral Resources

Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.

Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present.

Further-more, partisan attachments powerfully shape political perceptions, beliefs and values, and incumbents enjoy advantages well beyond the way in which their districts are configured.

All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.

The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit only the inner man, or more accurately, there is no inner man, man is in the world, and only in the world does he know himself.

In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a character's and let his perceptions take over.

So, we, as human beings, live in a very imprecise world. A world where our perceptions of reality are far more important than actual reality.

The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times.

An actress must be a woman whose emotional perceptions are true, and to make them so, she must have a fine contempt for any art or thought that betrays them for something false.

Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.

The decision to use the atom bomb on Japanese cities, and the consequent buildup of enormous nuclear arsenals, was made by governments, on the basis of political and military perceptions.

We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.

The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.

These are ideas. I could say that they just came to me, but it would be more accurate to say that I went to them. Ideas - and new connections between ideas - lead you away from commonly held perceptions of reality. Ideas lead you out here. Ideas lead you into the darkness.

Sometimes I feel limited by people's perceptions of what I can and cannot do, or what I do or don't look like.

I visited a scientist who had a helmet with magnetic fields controlled by computer sequences that could profoundly affect your mood and your perceptions.

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

Factors affecting effective regional cooperation are mindsets and perceptions emanating from the past.