Percipient Quotes

How significant is the enormous heightening, under mescalin, of the perception of color! ... Man's highly developed color sense is a biological luxury-inestimably precious to him as an intellectual and spiritual being, but unnecessary to his survival as an animal. ... Mescalin raises all colors to a higher power and makes the percipient aware of innumerable fine shades of difference, to which, at ordinary times, he is completely blind. It would seem that, for Mind at Large, the so-called secondary characters of things are primary. (Aldous Huxley)
As all our knowledge of the material world is derived from the information of our senses, natural philosophers have, in modern times, wisely abandoned to metaphysicians, all speculations concerning the nature of that substance of which it is composed; concerning the possibility or impossibility of its being created; concerning the efficient causes of the changes which take place in it; and even concerning the reality of its existence, independent of that of percipient beings: and have confined themselves to the humbler province of observing the phenomena it exhibits, and of ascertaining their general laws. View quote
Dugald Stewart
It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof. View quote
John Desmond Bernal
We detect ... throughout the whole of things - in the operations of nature, of human society, and in those of our own internal percipient and sentient soul - two master energies. View quote
Frances Wright