Source: Seth, Dreams & Projections of Consciousness, (1986), p. 347, quoting from Session 274
“They say there is a difference between actual temperature and perceived temperature, but in the “bearable heaviness of being” the actual measure is no doubt the weight we perceive.”
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Italian scholar, essayist and poet 1941Related quotes
“It doesn’t matter what temperature a room is, it’s always room temperature.”
“If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.”
This actually first appears in Recent Experiments in Psychology (1950) by Leland Whitney Crafts, Théodore Christian Schneirla, and Elsa Elizabeth Robinson, where it is expressed:
: If we used a different vocabulary or if we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.
Randy Allen Harris, in Rhetoric and Incommensurability (2005), p. 35, and an endnote on p. 138 indicates the misattribution seems to have originated in a misreading of quotes in Patterns Of Discovery: An Inquiry Into The Conceptual Foundations of Science (1958) by Norwood Russell Hanson, where an actual quotation of WIttgenstein on p. 184 is followed by one from the book on psychology.
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as quoted by George Porter in the preface of [But the Crackling is Superb, An Anthology on Food and Drink by Fellows and Foreign Members of the Royal Society, Institute of Physics Publishing, London, UK, 1988, 0-750-30488-X, xvii]
Source: The Cardturner: A Novel about a King, a Queen, and a Joker