Aesthetic perception (n.) is a way of perceiving an object for its own sake, absorbed in it rather than using it.
Aesthetic perception (n.) is the act of perceiving an individuated object not as an object, but as a platonic universal, and thus to raise the seer into a pure will-less, painless, and timeless subject of knowledge.
Aesthetic perception (n.) is a special state of perceptual consciousness where we lose ourselves in the object, forget about our individuality, and become the clear mirror of the platonic idea we perceive.
Body image (n.) is like an old photograph you keep retouching instead of retaking.
Body image (n.) changes far more slowly than the body it claims to describe.
Body image (n.) is assembled from remarks made about you before you were old enough to argue.
Body image (n.) is, in western society, directly related to social class with working class women, who have fewer resources and time to invest in cultivating their bodies, being more likely to express alienation from their body image.
Depth (n.) is what they claim who sit all day fishing in swamps; but whoever fishes where there are no fish cannot even be called superficial.
Depth (n.) means taking down whatever is cast into us — the age's filth, boys' gewgaws, wanderers' miseries — for we do not forget, and becoming bright again.
Depth (n.) is easily confused by the public with fishing in troubled waters.
Depth (n.) makes thinkers seem like comedians in company, because to be understood they must first simulate a surface.
Estranged perception (n.) is the fresh, critical view of one's own culture that comes from immersion in another.
Estranged perception (n.) is seeing your own kitchen as if you were a tourist.
Estranged perception (n.) is the notion that immersion in another culture provokes a searching reappraisal of one's own cultural outlook.