“Here, in the bare dark face of night
A calm unhurried eye draws sight
—We see in what we think we fear
The cloudings of our thought made clear”
Source: Culture series, Excession (1996), Chapter 3 “Uninvited Guests” section IV (p. 104).
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Iain Banks139
Scottish writer 1954–2013Related quotes
“We are as much as we see. Faith is sight and knowledge. The hands only serve the eyes.”
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
April 9, 1841
Journals (1838-1859)
“We are what we think.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts we make the world.”
Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism
As rendered by T. Byrom (1993), Shambhala Publications. <br class="br">There is no quote from the Pali Canon that matches up with any of these. The closest quote to this is in the Majjhima Nikaya 19: <br class="br">"Whatever a monk keeps pursuing with his thinking & pondering, that becomes the inclination of his awareness. If a monk keeps pursuing thinking imbued with sensuality, abandoning thinking imbued with renunciation, his mind is bent by that thinking imbued with sensuality. If a monk keeps pursuing thinking imbued with ill will, abandoning thinking imbued with non-ill will, his mind is bent by that thinking imbued with ill will. If a monk keeps pursuing thinking imbued with harmfulness, abandoning thinking imbued with harmlessness, his mind is bent by that thinking imbued with harmfulness." Sources: http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.019.than.html <br class="br">Misattributed
Derren Brown (1971) British illusionist
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Hugh Prather (1938–2010) American writer
Source: Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person
