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To live without philosophizing is properly to have one's eyes closed and never attempt to open them.

René Descartes - Principles of Philosophy /

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

Antoine de Saint-Exupery /

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

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The only true voyage, the only bath in the Fountain of Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to see the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to see the hundred universes that each of them sees, that each of them is.

Marcel Proust - La Prisonnière /

Philosophy is written in this grand book, which stands continually open before our eyes (I say the Universe), but can not be understood without first learning to comprehend the language and know the characters as it is written. It is written in mathematical language, and its characters are triangles, circles and other geometric figures, without which it is impossible to humanly understand a word; without these one is wandering in a dark labyrinth.

Galileo Galilei - The Assayer /

What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.

Robert Green Ingersoll /

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.

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Intelligence is the eye of the soul, not its strength. Its strength is in the heart, that is, in the passions.

Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims /

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

Henry David Thoreau - Walden; or, Life in the Woods /

A blind man is, he who shuts the eye of the mind.

Marcus Aurelius - Meditations /

The eyes cannot know the nature of things.

Lucretius, Titus Lucretius Carus - De rerum natura /

Eyes are the windows of the soul.

Hildegard of Bingen /

In the kingdom of the blind the one-eyed man is king.

Desiderius Erasmus /

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind;
and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare - A Midsummer Night's Dream /

But, what good is all of this light when people either have no eyes or deliberately shut those they have?

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg /

Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson - Journals /

The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.

Heraclitus of Ephesus /

To a Friend of Light
If you want to spare your eyes and your mind,
follow the sun from the shadows behind.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - The Joyful Science /

Skill to do comes of doing; knowledge comes by eyes always open, and working hands; and there is no knowledge that is not power.

Ralph Waldo Emerson /

Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself.

A mote it is to trouble the mind's eye.

William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark /

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

Benjamin Franklin /

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

Benjamin Franklin /

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine of Hippo /

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

Honore de Balzac /

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How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

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