Sight Quotes — Page 40

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

“Where do we find ourselves? In a series of which we do not know the extremes, and believe that it has none. We wake and find ourselves on a stair; there are stairs below us, which we seem to have ascended; there are stairs above us, many a one, which go upward and out of sight.”

Believe Life Sight

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

“Empirical science is apt to cloud the sight, and, by the very knowledge of functions and processes, to bereave the student of themanly contemplation of the whole.”

Science Sight Clouds

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Vincent Van Gogh

Painter

“The sight of stars makes me dream.”

Dream Stars

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Tennessee Williams

Playwright

“Walls are built up between people a hell of a damn sight faster than--broken down.”

People Wall

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

“The eye obeys exactly the action of the mind.”

Mind Eye Sight

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

“Say, what other metre is it Than the meeting of the eyes? Nature poureth into nature Through the channels of that feature Riding on the ray of sight, Fleeter far than whirlwinds go, Or for service, or delight, Hearts to hearts their meaning show.”

Heart Eye Sight

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

“The American who has been confined, in his own country, to the sight of buildings designed after foreign models, is surprised on entering York Minster or St. Peter's at Rome, by the feeling that these structures are imitations also,--faint copies of an invisible archetype.”

Country Sight Rome

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

“There will be an agreement in whatever variety of actions, so they be each honest and natural in their hour. For of one will, the actions will be harmonious, however unlike they seem. These varieties are lost sight of at a little distance, at a little height of thought. One tendency unites them all. The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency.”

Distance Sight Agreement

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

“Performing on a stool, we've got a sight to make you drool, seven virgins and a mule, keep it cool, keep it cool.”

Sight Social Taboos Mules

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Vincent Van Gogh

Painter

“For myself, I declare I don't know anything about it. But the sight of the stars always makes me dream.”

Dream Stars Sight

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Teju Cole

Author, Photographer

“The novelist loses, every time. Politics is insidious, the modern conduct of war (from shoulder-launched rockets to drone strikes) is insidious. Someone presses a button in California and twenty people are incinerated at a wedding in Pakistan. The killer is spared the sight of the corpses.”

War Sight California

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Teju Cole

Author, Photographer

“Each time I caught sight of geese swooping in formation across the sky, I wondered how our life below might look from their perspective, and imagined that, were they ever to indulge in such speculation, the high-rises might seem to them like firs massed in a grove.”

Sky Sight Indulge In

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