“Having eyes, but not seeing beauty; having ears, but not hearing music; having minds, but not perceiving truth…These are the things to fear…”
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Tetsuko Kuroyanagi2
Japanese actress 1933Related quotes
“Beautiful music plays, but not everyone with ears can hear it.”
Danielle Trussoni book Angelology
Source: Angelology
Johannes Kepler (1571–1630) German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer
I. 31 as quoted by Edwin Arthur Burtt in The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science
Joannis Kepleri Astronomi Opera Omnia, ed. Christian Frisch (1858)
Context: Just as the eye was made to see colours, and the ear to hear sounds, so the human mind was made to understand, not whatever you please, but quantity.
Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer
"To Janet Merriman", quoted in Letters of Lewis Carroll to his Child-Friends (1933) p. 81
“To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.”
Octavio Paz (1914–1998) Mexican writer laureated with the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature
Alternating Current (1967)
Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849) Polish composer
Said to one of his students, according to "Chopin: Pianist and Teacher: As Seen by His Pupils" by Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger
Ellen DeGeneres (1958) American stand-up comedian, television host, and actress
Source: Seriously... I'm Kidding
Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962) American poet
"Love the Wild Swan" (1935)
Context: This wild swan of a world is no hunter's game.
Better bullets than yours would miss the white breast
Better mirrors than yours would crack in the flame.
Does it matter whether you hate your... self?
At least Love your eyes that can see, your mind that can
Hear the music, the thunder of the wings. Love the wild swan.
William Augustus Muhlenberg (1796–1877) United States Anglican Episcopal clergyman
I would not live alway (published 1826), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).