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Quotation by Jacques Barzun
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Newsweek (New York, Dec. 5, 1955)Of Human Freedom Little, Brown (1939)quoted in Michael Novak, The Joy of Sports (1976)Teacher in America Little, Brown (1954)"The Bugbear of Relativism" The Culture We Deserve, Wesleyan University Press (1989)Related Subjects
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In ordinary speech the words perception and sensation tend to be used interchangeably, but the psychologist distinguishes. Sensations are the items of consciousness—a color, a weight, a texture—that we tend to think of as simple and single. Perceptions are complex affairs that embrace sensation together with other, associated or revived contents of the mind, including emotions.
Jacques Barzun (b. 1907), U.S. author, educator. "The Masterpiece," A Stroll with William James, University of Chicago Press (1983).
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