Cases Quote by Jean-Luc Nancy

The eye— it cannot choose but see; we cannot bid the ear be still; our bodies feel, where'er they be, against or with our…

— William Wordsworth

The eye takes a person into the world. The ear brings the world into a human being.

— Lorenz Oken

The ear will surrender even at those times when the eye wants to close, when the eye doesn't want to watch.

— Tony Harrison

Where the eye divides, the ear connects.

— John Luther Adams

The ear participates, and helps arrange marriages; the eye has already made love with what it sees. The eye knows pleasure, delights in the…

— Anonymous

What the eyes sees, the ear hears, and the mind belives.

— Harry Houdini

The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.

— Herodotus

The eye likes novelty, but the ear craves familiarity.

— W. H. Auden

The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately

— Anish Kapoor

Nothing comes back. The eye sees for a moment, the ear hears, but look, now it is gone.

— Eva Figes

Why cannot the ear be closed to its own destruction? Or the glistening eye to the poison of a smile?

— William Blake

What the eyes sees, the ear hears, and the mind believes.

— Harry Houdini