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What is the meaning of the togetherness of the perceiving mind, in that peculiar modification of perceiving which makes it perceive not a star but a tree, and the tree itself, is a problem for philosophy.

— Samuel Alexander

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✓Similar Perspectives

In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived.

— Samuel Alexander

I like to think of thoughts as living blossoms borne by the human tree.

— James Douglas

The mind is the root from which all things grow if you can understand the mind, everything else is included.

— Bodhidharma

All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.

— Rudolf Arnheim

Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know the truth and that which enables him to die for the truth.

— Edith Hamilton

We take for granted how our mind puts everything together.

— Robert Lanza

A tree is an incomprehensible mystery.

— Jim Woodring

Observation and thinking are the two points of departure for all the spiritual striving of man, insofar as he is conscious of such striving. The workings of common sense, as well as the most complicated scientific researches, rest on these two fundamental pillars of our spirit.

— Rudolf Steiner

✗Opposing Perspectives

We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.

— Pablo Casals

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

— Aldous Huxley