His perceptions are literal, tenacious, epileptichis understanding voracious of facts, and equally communicative of themand he proceeds to "Pour out all as plain As downright Shippen or as old Montaigne" without either the virulence of the one or the bonhommie of the other.

The perception of it is a matter of intuition, not one of experience.

Perception is the first power of mind which is brought into action, and the one made use of with most ease and pleasure.

Caloric means the cause of the sensation heat: and there seems no reason to fear that the perception of heat by the organs of sensation can ever be misunderstood to be the agent in chemical phenomena.

But it does not follow, nor did the writer of this sentence believe, that perception is a mere act or attribute of the organized matter of the brain.

Desmond is a violent, tyrannical, sensual man; his perceptions are his pulses.

If then the perception, that the same ideas will ETERNALLY have the same habitudes and relations, be not a sufficient ground of knowledge, there could be no knowledge of general propositions in mathematics; for no mathematical demonstration would be any other than particular: and when a man had demonstrated any proposition concerning one triangle or circle, his knowledge would not reach beyond that particular diagram.

Perception, as distinguished from Sensation, is the presentation before Consciousness of the details which once were present in conjunction with the object at this moment affecting Sense.

Perception is a sensation derived from the Lord alone, and has relation to the good and true, A.C. 104.

This clear and fine perception of what may be called the anæsthetic element in the Victorian era was, undoubtedly, the work of a great reformer: it requires a fine effort of the imagination to see an evil that surrounds us on every side.

ARCESILA`US, a Greek philosopher, a member of the Platonic School and founder of the New Academy, who held in opposition to the Stoics that perception was not knowledge, denied that we had any accurate criterion of truth, and denounced all dogmatism in opinion.

External and internal perception are the only windows through which the light of ideas penetrates into the dark chamber of the understanding.

It seemed to Hume indisputable that every distinct perception (or 'impression') was a distinct existence, and that all 'ideas' were equally distinct, though fainter, copies of impressions.

"But neither the perception of ideas, nor knowledge of any sort, are habits, though absolutely necessary to the forming of them.

This perception is the wisdom of the wife, and is not communicable to the man; neither is the rational wisdom of the man communicable to the wife.

But this is the very fact which we have hitherto lost sight of; and since our perception of life is the measure of our individual consciousness of it, we have imposed upon ourselves a world of limitation, a world filled with the power of the negative, because we have viewed things from that standpoint.

With the perception came the awful, overwhelming certitude.

Perception of the Aura, and Auric Emanations of others; Psychic Vibrations; Astral Colors; Thought Currents, Waves and Vibrations, etc., are features of Simple Clairvoyance.

In the Pioneers, Leatherstocking; is first introduceda philosopher of the woods, ignorant of books, but instructed in all that nature, without the aid of, science, could reveal to the man of quick senses and inquiring intellect, whose life has been passed under the open sky, and in companionship with a race whose animal perceptions are the acutest and most cultivated of which there is any example.

Perceptions (impressions) and consciousness are the same thing under different names.

The perception or sensation which thus arises is entirely subjective, a function of the knower merely, and in no way a copy of the external movement.

" The perception of the ludicrous is a pledge of sanity.

And, finally, the three "Postulates": "That which agrees with the formal conditions of experience (in intuition and in concepts) is possible," "That which is connected with the material conditions of experience (sensation) is actual" (perception is the only criterion of actuality).

Perception is the first step toward knowledge.