Perceptible Quotes

The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks.

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?

On this thin, scarcely real and yet so perceptible sensation the whole world hung as on a faintly trembling axis, and this in turn rested on the two people in the room.