Quotes · Skopia

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Philosophical literature

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

The Gay Science · 1882

★ 7.3

Seeing is forgetting the name of the things one sees.

1936

★ 6.9

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eyes.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The Little Prince · 1943

★ 6.9

Scripture · Religious literature

Immediately, something like scales fell from Saul’s eyes, and he could see again.

Acts 9:18

62

★ 6.4

Essay · Satire

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting · 1745

★ 5.5

Poem · Philosophical literature

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell · 1793

★ 3.8

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen nor even touched, but just felt in the heart.

1891

★ 3.8

Novel · Modernist literature

Shut your eyes and see.

Ulysses · 1922

★ 3.8

Philosophical literature

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Studies in Pessimism · 1851

★ 3.7

Color is the place where our brain meets the universe.

★ 3.7

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing!

Camille Pissarro

1893

★ 3.6

We must be careful of what we think we are, because we may become that.

James Q. Wilson

1993

★ 3.6

Scientific literature

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

2000

★ 3.5

Philosophical literature

The 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.

The Theory of Moral Sentiments · 1759

★ 2.0

Lecture · Philosophical literature

Appearances 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.

Discourses · 108

★ 1.9

Film · Coming of age (film) · Drama (film) · Coming of age · Drama

You see things and you understand. You're a wallflower.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower · 2012

★ 1.9

Film · Superhero (film) · Superhero

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.

Superman · 1978

★ 1.9

Treatise · Philosophical literature

What do we perceive besides our own ideas or sensations?

George Berkeley

1710

★ 1.2

Learning that color is a fiction of light is one of the primary shocks of growing up: that this hitherto deeply physical thing is just a reflection and that nothing can keep its color under the cover of darkness, are monstrous things to understand, even for my adult mind.

★ 0.9