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Philosophical literature6 quotes
What is originality? To see something that has no name as yet and hence cannot be mentioned although it stares us all in the face. — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1882If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. — William Blake · 1793Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. — Arthur Schopenhauer · 1851The great source of both the misery and disorders of human life seems to arise from overrating the difference between one permanent situation and another. Avarice overrates the difference between poverty and riches: ambition, that between a private and a public station: vainglory, that between obscurity and extensive reputation. The person under the influence of any of those extravagant passions is not only miserable in his actual situation, but is often disposed to disturb the peace of society, in order to arrive at that which he so foolishly admires. — Adam Smith · 1759Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things are either what they appear to be; or they are neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man's task. — Epictetus · 108What do we perceive besides our own ideas or sensations? — George Berkeley · 1710Coming of age1 quote
You see things and you understand. You're a wallflower. — Patrick · 2012Coming of age (film)1 quote
You see things and you understand. You're a wallflower. — Patrick · 2012Drama1 quote
You see things and you understand. You're a wallflower. — Patrick · 2012Drama (film)1 quote
You see things and you understand. You're a wallflower. — Patrick · 2012Modernist literature1 quote
Shut your eyes and see. — James Joyce · 1922Religious literature1 quote
Immediately, something like scales fell from Saul’s eyes, and he could see again. — Acts 9:18 · 62Satire1 quote
Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. — Jonathan Swift · 1745Scientific literature1 quote
Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination. — Gerald M. Edelman · 2000Superhero1 quote
Some people can read War and Peace and come away thinking it's a simple adventure story. Others can read the ingredients on a chewing gum wrapper and unlock the secrets of the universe. — Lex Luthor · 1978Superhero (film)1 quote
Some people can read War and Peace and come away thinking it's a simple adventure story. Others can read the ingredients on a chewing gum wrapper and unlock the secrets of the universe. — Lex Luthor · 1978