He perceives that though he has spent his whole life upon a subject or a fraction of a subject, he knows hardly anything about it compared to what there is to know.
One's consciousness does not create its impressions, one does not make for oneself the moral and artistic ideas that visit one; one perceives them.
The spiritual order to which Pascal refers lifts a man so far as he perceives it out of his ordinary self and draws him to an ethical centre.
The centre that one perceives with the aid of the classical imagination and that sets bounds to impulse and desire may, as I have already said, be defined in opposition to the outer infinite of expansion as the inner or human infinite.
The One that the great poet or artist perceives in the Many and that gives to his work its high seriousness is not a fixed absolute.
But its analogies to be of value should surely have validity apart from the mere shifting mood of the man who perceives them.
To say that the classicist (and I am speaking of the classicist at his best) gets at his reality with the aid of the imagination is but another way of saying that he perceives his reality only through a veil of illusion.
For Conception can only comprise each object separately, but nothing in truth can ever exist separately and by itself; Feeling perceives all in all at one and the same time.
Later he perceives their differences of strength, and, comparing them with the enamels of middle chroma, can describe how weak or strong they are.
Then springing on flew forward, And now again returns To court him to the way; And now his hand perceives Her rosy feet press firmer, as she leaps Upon the wing again.
The worst symptom which Lord Melbourne perceives is the general fear which seems to prevail there, and which makes every danger ten times as great as it really is.
Lord Melbourne perceives that he has unintentionally written upon two sheets of paper, which he hopes will cause your Majesty no inconvenience.
When the novelist perceives this he does not perceive it all, because some of the words are the only words in use.
The words are in the mouth of a widower who, approaching his wife's tomb, perceives there another "monsieur.
This absolute submission to the will of God, which perceives in suffering only an expression of His fatherly love and mercy, was the ideal of R.
There he perceives him dying the most cruel of deaths, and his flesh being sold by weight.
As DAVID perceives it, his features work convulsively, his string breaks with a tragic snap, and he totters backward into VERA'S arms.
He yawns, heaves a great sigh of relief, walks toward the table, and perceives a music-roll.
In her words the Knight perceives but too clearly the seeds of the fatal mistrust sown by Ortrud and Frederick.
Looking down into the valley the Valkyr perceives Siegmund and Sieglinde approaching in hasty flight.
Daland, however, perceives the Dutchman and going ashore questions him.
Chateaubriand, from the same premises, develops a directly opposite conclusion, andperceives in all this high antiquity and civilization only a praiseworthy evolution from primeval barbarism.
Dr Morton perceives the same characteristic lineaments in the face of the Fuegian and the Mexican, and in tribes inhabiting the Rocky Mountains, the Mississippi Valley, and Florida.
Holmberg carries their boundaries down to the Columbia River; and Wrangell perceives a likeness, real or imaginary, to the Aztecs.
A man stationed here on the look out, perceives a whale spouting about six miles off, between the main-land and the opposite islands.
He then fully perceives how much more difficult it is to obtain a bare subsistence in the old country.
Electra, daughter of Agamemnon, who also loves Idamantes perceives with fury his predilection for the captive princess and endeavours to regain his heart.
But when he perceives in her the unknown lady, whom he believes to be so unworthy, he takes back his word.
When silly Peter perceives him, he believes him to be the Grenadier, who had so ill-treated him at the wedding, though in reality it was Schwarzbart.
But instead of his wife, sweet songs are heard from the temple, he forgets his oath, spies into its interior through a cleft and perceives the place of the nixies, with Melusine in their midst.
Gontran is about to bid her farewell, but {110} when in the act of taking leave, he perceives her love and tells her that he is the officer, who was once substitute for her brother in the war.
As soon as Andre perceives her danger, he follows her.
To the south one discovers the long and low coast of New Jersey, and perceives the sea-baths of Long Branch, which during the heat of summer are numerously visited by the fashionables of New York and Philadelphia.
On the left hand oneperceives a large yard, in the rear of which are the out-houses, and behind them lie the fortified walls with several towers.
Here, as in so many spots in France, the traveller perceives that he is in a land of revolutions.
If he perceivesthem at New York and Philadelphia--we imagine him boldly as liberated from Boston--how could he fail to perceive them at La Rochelle?
There is no order which is more than skin deep, unless it be the free, glad obedience of the child to a law, which he perceives to be creative because it enables him to do something real.
Whoever aims publicly at great things and at length perceives secretly that he is too weak to achieve them, has usually also insufficient strength to renounce his aims publicly, and then inevitably becomes a hypocrite.
The man who is bed-ridden often perceives that he is usually ill of his position, business, or society, and through them has lost all self-possession.
Now, when the soul has climbed its watch-tower and perceives A world of capability For joy, spread round about us, meant for us, Inviting us.
But these weak minds grow obstinate; the sceptic perceives that they do not bend before his superiority, and dare perhaps to consider themselves as his equals.
He perceives the rays of His glory because he believes in Him.
For a few moments, the ear perceives a sort of death-song: it is the humming of the Bumble-bee, protesting against the reception given her.
Clutching her telephone-wire with a toe, the Spider listens with her leg; she perceives the innermost vibrations; she distinguishes between the vibration proceeding from a prisoner and the mere shaking caused by the wind.
There he first perceives the duties that will shortly devolve upon him.
A traveler of taste at once perceives that the wise are polite all the world over, but that fools are polite only at home.
It perceives the little flying-fish in the water, at a height which can not be less than four hundred feet.
Now, nothing can exceed the cupidity of the Polynesian, when, through partial commerce with the whites, his eyes are opened to his nakedness, and he perceives that in some things they are richer than himself.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "perceives" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
