“We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.”
William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English writer
"Thoughts on Taste," Edinburgh Magazine, (October 1818), reprinted in The Collected Works of William Hazlitt (1902-1904)
“We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.”
William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English writer
"Thoughts on Taste," Edinburgh Magazine, (October 1818), reprinted in The Collected Works of William Hazlitt (1902-1904)
George William Russell (1867–1935) Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, and artistic painter
"The Unknown God" (1913) http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/350.html <br class="br">Context: Far up the dim twilight fluttered<br>Moth-wings of vapour and flame:<br>The lights danced over the mountains,<br>Star after star they came. The lights grew thicker unheeded,<br>For silent and still were we;<br>Our hearts were drunk with a beauty<br>Our eyes could never see.
Melanie Joy book Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows
Source: Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows (2010), p. 113
“We cannot begin to describe all the effects of the sun, that great heart outside of our body.”
Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist
The Sun My Heart (1996)
Context: We have to remember that our body is not limited to what lies within the boundary of our skin. Our body is much more immense. We know that if our heart stops beating, the flow of our life will stop, but we do not take the time to notice the many things outside of our bodies that are equally essential for our survival. If the ozone layer around our Earth were to disappear for even an instant, we would die. If the sun were to stop shining, the flow of our life would stop. The sun is our second heart, our heart outside of our body. It gives all life on Earth the warmth necessary for existence. Plants live thanks to the sun. Their leaves absorb the sun's energy, along with carbon dioxide from the air, to produce food for the tree, the flower, the plankton. And thanks to plants, we and other animals can live. All of us—people, animals, plants, and minerals—"consume" the sun, directly and indirectly. We cannot begin to describe all the effects of the sun, that great heart outside of our body.
When we look at green vegetables, we should know that it is the sun that is green and not just the vegetables. The green color in the leaves of the vegetables is due to the presence of the sun. Without the sun, no living being could survive. Without sun, water, air, and soil, there would be no vegetables. The vegetables are the coming-together of many conditions near and far.
Javier Marías (1951) Spanish writer
Todo lo que nos sucede, todo lo que hablamos o nos es relatado, cuanto vemos con nuestros propios ojos o sale de nuestra lengua o entra por nuestros oídos, todo aquello a lo que asistimos (y de lo cual, por tanto, somos algo responsables), ha de tener un destinatario fuera de nosotros mismos, y a ese destinatario lo vamos seleccionando en función de lo que acontece o nos dicen o bien decimos nosotros.
Source: Todas las Almas [All Souls] (1989), p. 140
Charles Cooley (1864–1929) American sociologist
Charles Horton Cooley, in Structure and Agency in Everyday Life: An Introduction to Social Psychology http://books.google.co.in/books?id=KMLEnR1hoDQC&pg=PA53, (1 January 2003), p. 53
“Whatever we look at, and however we look at it, we see only through our own eyes.”
C.G. Jung book Modern Man in Search of a Soul
Source: Modern Man in Search of a Soul
Muhammad Asad book The Road to Mecca
Page 68.
The Road to Mecca (1954)
Paul Laurence Dunbar book The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar
We Wear The Mask, in the 1913 collection of his work, The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar.
Context: We wear the mask that grins and lies,
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,—
This debt we pay to human guile;
With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,
And mouth with myriad subtleties.
Why should the world be over-wise,
In counting all our tears and sighs?
Nay, let them only see us, while
We wear the mask.
We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries
To thee from tortured souls arise.
We sing, but oh the clay is vile
Beneath our feet, and long the mile;
But let the world dream otherwise,
We wear the mask!