All 12 Uses of
perception
in
War and Peace
- Prince Vasili did not reply, though, with the quickness of memory and perception befitting a man of the world, he indicated by a movement of the head that he was considering this information.†
Chpt 1
- Now, entering into Weyrother's plan, Prince Andrew considered possible contingencies and formed new projects such as might call for his rapidity of perception and decision.†
Chpt 3
- He had a dim perception of the following budget: About 80,000 went in payments on all the estates to the Land Bank, about 30,000 went for the upkeep of the estate near Moscow, the town house, and the allowance to the three princesses; about 15,000 was given in pensions and the same amount for asylums; 150,000 alimony was sent to the countess; about 70,000 went for interest on debts.†
Chpt 5
- Granted that were they competent they might be made use of," continued Napoleon—hardly able to keep pace in words with the rush of thoughts that incessantly sprang up, proving how right and strong he was (in his perception the two were one and the same)—"but they are not even that!†
Chpt 9
- It was evident that he had long been convinced that it was impossible for him to make a mistake, and that in his perception whatever he did was right, not because it harmonized with any idea of right and wrong, but because he did it.†
Chpt 9
- The luring of Napoleon into the depths of the country was not the result of any plan, for no one believed it to be possible; it resulted from a most complex interplay of intrigues, aims, and wishes among those who took part in the war and had no perception whatever of the inevitable, or of the one way of saving Russia.†
Chpt 10
- And from the height of this perception all that had previously tormented and preoccupied him suddenly became illumined by a cold white light without shadows, without perspective, without distinction of outline.†
Chpt 10
- There they are, those false images that agitated, enraptured, and tormented me," said he to himself, passing in review the principal pictures of the magic lantern of life and regarding them now in the cold white daylight of his clear perception of death.†
Chpt 10
- A fifth group, displaying the profundity of their strategic perceptions, discussed the direction the troops would now have to take.†
Chpt 11
- What is conscience and the perception of right and wrong in actions that follows from the consciousness of freedom?†
Chpt 15 *
- The first consideration is the clearness of our perception of the man's relation to the external world and the greater or lesser clearness of our understanding of the definite position occupied by the man in relation to everything coexisting with him.†
Chpt 15
- The second consideration is the more or less evident time relation of the man to the world and the clearness of our perception of the place the man's action occupies in time.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(perception as in: perception of injustice) a belief or opinion formed by viewing things a certain way