When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived images of things outside the image of our body, and thus replace perception within the things themselves.

I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body: they transmit movement to it.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. -Henri Bergson.

To perceive means to immobilize. We seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.

Think like a man of action and act like a man of thought.

The body, by the place which at each moment it occupies in the universe, indicates the parts and the aspects of matter on which we can lay hold: our perception, which exactly measures our virtual action on things, thus limits itself to the objects which actually influence our organs and prepare our movements.