Contemporary Quote by Heinrich Heine

“To the mass of mankind, therefore, the philosopher may appear as a spiritual saboteur, a subverter of things lawfully established, and an apologist for…

— Roger Scruton

I am fascinated by Spinoza's pantheism, but admire even more his contributions to modern thought because he is the first philosopher to deal with…

— Albert Einstein

“Schopenhauer and Spinoza distilled, condensed, and funneled through the pupil, along the optic nerve, and directly into our occipital lobes. I’d love to be…

— Irvin D. Yalom

Before I got glasses, I thought Monet was the world's only realist landscape painter.

— Jo Walton

I've always been interested in philosophy, but I don't' think there are any philosophers anymore. Now it's artists. It's a visual thing - you…

— Michele Lamy

Wearing spectacles makes men conceited, because spectacles raise them to a degree of sensual perfection which is far above the power of their own…

— Johann Peter Eckermann

Cynic: an idealist whose rose-colored glasses have been removed, snapped in two and stomped into the ground, immediately improving his vision

— Rick Bayan

In the case of all other sciences, arts, skills, and crafts, everyone is convinced that a complex and laborious programme of learning and practice…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“The looking-glass vision is of suprme importance because it charges the vitality; it stimulates the nervous system. Take it away and man may die,…

— Virginia Woolf

A philosopher is a man who can look at an empty glass with a smile.

— Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.

— Alexander Pope

“If we look through a piece of glass, irregularities and impurities may distort and discolor the impression of what we see. If we regard…

— Inge and Sten Hegeler