“How alive is thought, invisible, yet without thought there is no sight.”
Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman
“Thought,” p. 64
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “A Stone and a Word”
“Awakening of a Flower,” p. 38
Circling: 1978-1987 (1993), Sequence: “A Conversations with Atoms”
“How alive is thought, invisible, yet without thought there is no sight.”
Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman
“Thought,” p. 64
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “A Stone and a Word”
“Thought, meditation and pondering is the life of clear sighted people”
Hasan ibn Ali (624–669) Shia Imam
Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.72, p. 115
Regarding Knowledge
“Love what we see can from our sight remove,
And things invisible are seen by Love.”
John Hoole (1727–1803) British translator
Book I, line 396
Translations, Orlando Furioso of Ludovico Ariosto (1773)
Joseph Conrad (1857–1924) Polish-British writer
Victory: An Island Tale http://www.gutenberg.org/files/6378/6378-h/6378-h.htm (1915), Part II, ch. 3
“There is no such thing as love at first sight, Bryan. There’s only sex at first sight.”
Julian May book The Many-Colored Land
The Many-Colored Land, chap. 9, p. 59
“Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.”
Herman Melville (1818–1891) American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet
Julian (emperor) (331–363) Roman Emperor, philosopher and writer
Upon The Mother Of The Gods (c. 362-363)
Context: To what purpose, pray, exist all these things that be born? Whence come male and female? Whence the difference in kind of all things that be, amongst visible species, unless there be certain pre-existing and previously established Reasons and Causes subsisting beforehand, in the nature of a pattern? With regard to which, though we are dull of sight, yet let us strive to clear away the mist from the eyes of the soul.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel (1772–1829) German poet, critic and scholar
Philosophy of Life, Lecture 1
Alfred Austin (1835–1913) British writer and poet
Source: Candida to Valori in Act IV, sc. iv; p. 262, Savonarola (1881)
Ali al-Rida (770–818) eighth of the Twelve Imams
Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.78, p. 352.
Religious Wisdom