“It is easier for me to see everything as one thing than to see one thing as one thing.”
Me es más fácil ver todas las cosas como una cosa sola, que ver una cosa como una cosa sola.
Voces (1943)
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Me es más fácil ver todas las cosas como una cosa sola, que ver una cosa como una cosa sola.
Voces (1943)
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“To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.”
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“So much easier is it to do many things than to do one thing for a long time continuously.”
Adeo facilius est multa facere quam diu.
Book I, Chapter XII, 7; translation by H. E. Butler
De Institutione Oratoria (c. 95 AD)
“It is better to be blind than to see things from only one point of view.”
“To govern well, one must see things as they are.”
Our America (1881)
Letter to "Micheal" (16 February 1970), Micheal was a 10 year old boy who had inquired in a letter as to whether Fuller was a "doer" or a "thinker".
1970s
Context: The Things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done. Then you will conceive your own way of doing that which needs to be done — that no one else has told you to do or how to do it. This will bring out the real you that often gets buried inside a character that has acquired a superficial array of behaviors induced or imposed by others on the individual.
“Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.”
Source: Jefferson and/or Mussolini (1935), Ch. 23
“In life's tragedy, separation is the only thing one sees.”
The Inferno (1917), Ch. XVI
Context: A couple, a man and a woman — poor human beings almost always go in pairs — approached, and passed. I saw the empty space between them. In life's tragedy, separation is the only thing one sees. They had been happy, and they were no longer happy. They were almost old already. He did not care for her, although they were growing old together. What were they saying? In a moment of open-heartedness, trusting to the peacefulness reigning between them at that time, he owned up to an old transgression, to a betrayal scrupulously and religiously hidden until then. Alas, his words brought back an irreparable agony. The past, which had gently lain dead, rose to life again for suffering. Their former happiness was destroyed. The days gone by, which they had believed happy, were made sad; and that is the woe in everything.
Source: Essays and Addresses, Vol. III- Evolution and Occultism (1913)
“See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence.”