perception Quotes

The saying of Protagoras is like the views we have mentioned; he said that man is the measure of all things, meaning simply that that which seems to each man assuredly is. If this is so, it follows that the... ...

To the sober person adventurous conduct often seems insanity.

Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot... ...

Comedy has had no history, because it was not at first treated seriously.

As the pleasures of the body are the ones which we most often meet with, and as all men are capable of these, these have usurped the family title; and some men think these are the only pleasures that exist,... ...

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

Imagination is a sort of faint perception.

In the human species at all events there is a great diversity of pleasures. The same things delight some men and annoy others, and things painful and disgusting to some are pleasant and attractive to others.

The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.

A sense is what can take in the forms of things without their physical material, just as wax takes the shape of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.