Human beings Quote by Thomas de Quincey

“It is a commonplace of all religious thought, even the most primitive, that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his…

— Loren Eiseley

Now man cannot live without some vision of himself. But still less can he live with a vision that is not true to his…

— D. H. Lawrence

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

“But if he has lost the sane vision, he can only get it back by something very like a mad vision; that is, by…

— G.K. Chesterton

He felt like a man who, after straining his eyes to peer into the remote distance, finds what he was seeking at his very…

— Leo Tolstoy

“A human being needs to endure something in order to learn to assess himself correctly, and not least to learn to think with others.…

— Pope Benedict XVI

He who has learned to look to God in everything he does is at the same time diverted from all vain thoughts.

— John Calvin

“Humans only see what they want to see, where they are in their minds, who they want to be”

— Cameron Jace

A man who is seeking for realization is not only going around searching for his spectacles without realizing that they are on his nose…

— Wei Wu Wei

“To a man devoid of blinders, there is no finer sight than that of the intelligence at grips with a reality that transcends it.”

— Albert Camus

Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy…

— Anonymous

A man's pursuit of knowledge is greater than his shortcomings, the limits of his vision.

— Natasha Trethewey