Sensory-impressions Quote by Socrates

“I thought that as I had failed in the contemplation of true existence, I ought to be careful that I did not lose the…

— Socrates

“Staring at the light of another blinds the view of our own.”

— Charles F. Glassman

“What you can see with the vision of the soul cannot be seen with open eyes.”

— Shiva Negi

I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind…

— Socrates

“Eyes overlook objects unknown to mind.”

— Toba Beta

I was afraid that by observingobjects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses Imight blind my soul…

— Socrates

“for the eye sees not itself, but by reflection, by some other things.”

— William Shakespeare

The eye observes only what the mind, the heart, and the imagination are gifted to see; and sight must be reinforced by insight before…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

“Seen with the terrestrially sullied eye, we are in a situation of travelers in a train that has met with an accident in a…

— Franz Kafka

“9. In conclusion, individuals must not fix the eyes of their souls on that rind of the figure and object supernaturally accorded to the…

— San Juan de la Cruz

“Ho Ki Ichi,[FN#228] a great blind scholar, was one evening giving a lecture, without knowing that the light had been put out by the…

— Kaiten Nukariya

“Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either…

— Plato