All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
You cannot perceive beauty but with a serene mind.
To be is to be perceived or to perceive.
The perception of beauty is a moral test.
Science is nothing but perception.
You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.
Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom.
