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“Until you go to Kentucky and with your own eyes behold the Derby, you ain't never been nowhere and you ain't seen nothin'!”

Eye Seeing Humorists Kentucky Columnists Derby

Author:Irvin S. Cobb

“Baseball is the religion that worships the obvious and gives thanks that things are exactly as they seem. Instead of celebrating mysteries, baseball rejoices in the absence of mysteries and trusts that, if we watch what is laid before our eyes, down to the last detail, we will cultivate the gift of seeing things as they really are.”

Ifs Giving Seems Eye Lasts Watches Seeing Mystery Worship Baseball Details Obvious Absence Celebrate Thanks Rejoice

Author:Thomas Boswell

“What is magical and mystifying to me about style is not that by seeing we can believe. It is that eventually, we can believe, because we can see we can embrace change the more we can make it tangible.”

Believe Seeing Style Embrace Tangible Embrace Change

Book:The Truth About Style

Source: The Truth About Style

“Each of us has the power and responsibility to heal ourselves, to be our own medicine man or woman. Awakening our innate powers of being, loving, knowing, seeing, and healing involves ongoing work at all levels and in all dimensions of our self. Exploring the range of rhythms and emotions, achieving insights into our conditioning and ego, moving through the energy levels of spirit – these are all activities to be integrated into our daily lives.”

Source: Maps to Ecstasy: The Healing Power of Movement

“Seeing the world anew, as if it were new, is as old as writing. It's what all painters are trying to do, to see what's there, to see it in a way that renews it. It becomes more and more urgent as the planet gets worn flat and forest after forest is slain to print the paper for people's impressions to be scrawled down on. It becomes harder and harder to be original, to see things with an innocent eye. Innocence is much tied up with it. As the planet gets progressively less innocent, you need a more innocent eye to see it.”

“There's a whole lot of people in trouble tonight From the disease of conceit Whole lot of people seeing double tonight From the disease of conceit Give ya delusions of grandeur And a evil eye Give you the idea that You're too good to die Then they bury you from your head to your feet From the disease of conceit”

People Giving Ideas Whole Eye Dies Evil Seeing Trouble Feet Disease Tonight Delusion Conceit Grandeur Delusions Of Grandeur Evil Eye

Book:Lyrics:1962-2012

Source: Lyrics:1962-2012

“Even before Melanchthon sank into his grave, he was dismayed at seeing Lutheranism stiffen into dogmas and formulas, and heartbroken by a persecution from his fellow-Protestants more bitter than anything he had ever experienced from Catholics.”

Seeing Catholic Fellows Graves Bitter Formulas Dogma Persecution Heartbroken Protestants Dismayed

Book:SEVEN GREAT STATESMEN IN THE WARFARE OF HUMANITY WITH UNREASON

Source: SEVEN GREAT STATESMEN IN THE WARFARE OF HUMANITY WITH UNREASON

“I always figured that once I wrapped a film, then anything beyond that is none of my business. If I can avoid seeing the final product, then all I have in my head is feeling good about the experience.”

Ifs I Can Feelings Film Seeing Products Finals Feel Good

Author:Johnny Depp

“It's like seeing someone for the first time, and you look at each other for a few seconds, and there's this kind of recognition like you both know something. Next moment the person's gone, and it's too late to do anything about it.”

“I was struck by the way in which meanings are historically attached to words: it is so accidental, so remote, so twisted. A word is like a schoolgirl's room--a complete mess--so the great thing is to make out a way of seeing it all as ordered, as right, as inferred and following.”

Way Rooms Seeing Following Great Things Mess Twisted Make Out

Book:Conversations with William H. Gass

Source: Conversations with William H. Gass

“Before seeing Truffaut 's Small Change, I was afraid it was going to be one of those simple, natural films about childhood which I generally try to avoid I'm just not good enough to go to them. But this series of sketches on the general theme of the resilience of children turns out to be that rarity a poetic comedy that's really funny.”

Trying Children Enough Film Turns Natural Simple Comedy Seeing Childhood Series Resilience Theme Poetic Good Enough Not Good Enough Rarity Small Changes

Book:When the lights go down

Source: When the lights go down

“To the seeing eye life is mostly Sparrows.”

Eye Life Is Seeing Sparrows

Book:How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes

Source: How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes

“The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.”

World Humans Seems Eye Human Beings Vision Seeing Bigger Microscopes

Author:Khalil Gibran

“They are playing a game. They are playing at not playing a game. If I show them I see they are, I shall break the rules and they will punish me. I must play their game, of not seeing I see the game.”

Ifs Play Shows Games Break Seeing

Book:Selected Works of RD Laing: Knots

Source: Selected Works of RD Laing: Knots

“All great humorists are sad... I cannot help seeing beyond the tinsel of humour, and recognising the pitiful basis of jest - the world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.”

World Helping Seeing Mankind Humour Jokes Bases Comic Humorists Jest Pitiful Tinsel

Author:H. P. Lovecraft

“An isolated person requires correspondence as a means of seeing his ideas as others see them, and thus guarding against the dogmatisms and extravagances of solitary and uncorrected speculation.”

Mean Persons Ideas Seeing Isolated Solitary Speculation Extravagance Correspondence Dogmatism Guarding

Author:H. P. Lovecraft

“In my youth and comparative inexperience I had always regarded the yearning and pangs of love as the worst torture that could afflict the human heart. At this moment, however, I began to realize that there was another and perhaps grimmer torture than that of longing and desiring: that of being loved against one's will and of being unable to defend oneself against the urgency of another's passion; of seeing another human being seared by the flame of her desire and of having to look impotently, lacking the power, the capacity, the strength to pluck her from the flames.”

“Sometimes the act of walking in the face of the elements helps us come to grips with reality. Or it simply exhausts us to the point of seeing the futility of resisting reality and the futility of denial.”

Sometimes Helping Reality Faces Seeing Walking Elements Denial Futility Resisting

Author:John Ashcroft

“Seeing ongoing political reforms that have a real impact on people all over the world is extremely satisfying. But we want every person who's having a dispute with their kindergarten to feel confident about sending us material.”

People World Want Feels Persons Real Political Seeing Materials Impact Reform Satisfying Disputes Ongoing Kindergarten Political Reform

Author:Julian Assange

“Pure love is in the will alone; it is no sentimental love, for the imagination has no part in it; it loves, if we may so express it, without feeling, as faith believes without seeing.”

Ifs Believe May Feelings Imagination Love Is Seeing Pure Sentimental Pure Love

Book:Spiritual Progress

Source: Spiritual Progress

“It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor. ... Some of the worst tyrannies of our day genuinely are "vowed" to the service of mankind, yet can function only by pitting neighbor against neighbor. The all-seeing eye of a totalitarian regime is usually the watchful eye of the next-door neighbor. In a Communist state love of neighbor may be classed as counter-revolutionary.”

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“DEBT, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slave-driver. As, pent in an aquarium, the troutlet Swims round and round his tank to find an outlet, Pressing his nose against the glass that holds him, Nor ever sees the prison that enfolds him; So the poor debtor, seeing naught around him, Yet feels the narrow limits that impound him, Grieves at his debt and studies to evade it, And finds at last he might as well have paid it.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

“Most English speakers do not have the writer's short fuse about seeing or hearing their language brutalized. This is the main reason, I suspect, that English is becoming the world's universal tongue: English-speaking natives don't care how badly others speak English as long as they speak it. French, once considered likely to become the world's lingua franca, has lost popularity because those who are born speaking it reject this liberal attitude and become depressed, insulted or insufferable when their language is ill used.”

Source: There's a Country in My Cellar

“Conscience is what? It is putting together a moral act and a moral ideal, and measuring the act by the ideal. It is putting this moral act which you do alongside the eternal laws of God, and seeing how it stands by those laws of God.”

Together Law Moral Seeing Eternal Conscience Ideals Measuring

Book:Problems of Life: Selections from the Writings of Rev. Lyman Abbott

Source: Problems of Life: Selections from the Writings of Rev. Lyman Abbott

“This is our goal as writers, I think; to help others have this sense of--please forgive me--wonder, of seeing things anew, things that can catch us off guard, that break in on our small, bordered worlds.”

Thinking World Writing Helping Goal Wonder Break Seeing Please Forgiving Helping Others Forgive Me Please Forgive Me

Book:Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

“The poverty of the incapable, the distresses that come upon the imprudent, the starvation of the idle, and those shoulderings aside of the weak by the strong, which leave so many "in shallows and in miseries," are the decrees of a large, far-seeing benevolence.”

Strong Poverty Seeing Weak Misery Idle Distress Incapable Benevolence Starvation Decree

Book:The Man versus the State: Great Essays

Source: The Man versus the State: Great Essays

“To some extent we are all the prisoners of stereotypes; we see each other in terms of distorted and oversimplified images. Better communication in the realm of ideas, of the arts, and of science can help refashion these false images. And by seeing more clearly we may act more wisely.”

May Art Ideas Helping Term Seeing Communication Realms Prisoner Stereotype

Book:The Conscience of a Liberal

Source: The Conscience of a Liberal

“On any longer view, man is only fitfully committed to the rational -- to thinking, seeing, learning, knowing. Believing is what he's really proud of.”

Thinking Men Believe Views Knowing Seeing Proud Committed Rational

Author:Martin Amis

“I refer to the misunderstanding of Soviet Russia as an aggressive power, militaristically and ideologically bent upon world domination 'seeing', to quote a recent speech of the British Prime Minister, 'the rest of the world as its rightful fiefdom.' How any rational person, viewing objectively the history of the last thirty-five years, could entertain this 'international misunderstanding' challenges, if it does not defeat, comprehension. The notion has no basis in fact... If Russia is bent on world conquest, she has been remarkably slothful and remarkably unsuccessful.”

“And seeing every man is presumed to do all things in order to his own benefit, no man is a fit Arbitrator in his own cause”

Men Order Causes Seeing Fit Benefits All Things Every Man

Book:Leviathan, Parts I and II - Revised Edition

Source: Leviathan, Parts I and II - Revised Edition

“The seen and seeing softly mutually strike Their glass barrier that arrests the sight. But the world's being hides in the volcanoes And the foul history pressed into its core; And to myself my being is my childhood And passion and entrails and the roots of senses; I'm pressed into the inside of a mask At the back of love, the back of air, the back of light.”

World Light Passion Seeing Air Childhood Roots Sight Glasses Strikes Core Senses Mask Barriers Foul Volcanoes

Book:New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender

Source: New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender

“The new paradigm may be called a holistic world view, seeing the world as an integrated whole rather than a dissociated collection of parts. It may also be called an ecological view, if the term "ecological" is used in a much broader and deeper sense than usual. Deep ecological awareness recognizes the fundamental interdependence of all phenomena and the fact that, as individuals and societies we are all embedded in (and ultimately dependent on) the cyclical process of nature.”

Source: The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision

“Despotic governments do not recognize the precious human component of the state, seeing its citizens only as a faceless, mindless -- and helpless -- mass to be manipulated at will. It is as though people were incidental to a nation rather than its very life-blood.”

People Humans States Government Nations Seeing Blood Citizens Mass Tyrants Helpless Components Mindless Faceless

Book:Freedom from Fear: And Other Writings

Source: Freedom from Fear: And Other Writings

“No longer can we consider what the artist does to be a self-contained activity, mysteriously inspired from above, unrelated and unrelatable to other human activities. Instead, we recognize the exalted kind of seeing that leads to the creation of great art as an outgrowth of the humbler and more common activity of the eyes in everyday life. Just as the prosaic search for information is "artistic" because it involves giving and finding shape and meaning, so the artist's conceiving is an instrument of life, a refined way of understanding who and where we are.”

Source: Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye

“It's the one species I wouldn't mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth. I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.”

Mind Earth Faces Left Wish White Seeing Species Males Parks National Parks

Author:Alan Bennett

“The learned are said to have seeing eyes; The unlearned have only two sores on their faces.”

Said Two Eye Faces Seeing

Author:Thiruvalluvar

“Being natural and matter-of-fact about nudity prevents your children from developing an attitude of shame or disgust about the human body. If parents are very secretive about their bodies and go to great lengths to prevent their children from ever seeing a buttock or breast, children will wonder what is so unusual, and even alarming, about human nudity.”

“Some of the opera houses in Italy had to be burnt down because people could neither see nor hear. They gave up seeing years ago, but they did enjoy the music.”

People Years House Enjoy Seeing Years Ago Opera Gave Up Opera House

Author:Philip Johnson

“I have always directed my attempts at the figurative representation of objects by way of summary and not very descriptive brushstrokes, diverging greatly from the real objective measurements of things, and this has led many people to talk about childish drawing.. ..this position of seeing them (the objects) without looking at them too much, without focussing more attention on them than any ordinary man would in normal everyday life..”

People Men Way Real Attention Too Much Seeing Position Objects Normal Ordinary Everyday Drawing Objectives Representation Everyday Life Measurement Ordinary Man Summary

Author:Jean Dubuffet

“As we applaud the hard-edged realism of the opening battle scene of Saving Private Ryan, we cringe at the thought of seeing the same on the nightly news.We are told it would be pornographic.”

Hard Would Be Seeing Scene Battle News Opening Saving Realism Cringe Saving Private Ryan

Author:Tim Robbins

“This was a secret meeting on a secret tour which nobody is supposed to know about. It means that there are men, and perhaps women, in this country walking around with eggs in their pockets, just on the off-chance of seeing the Prime Minister.”

Knows Men Mean Country Chance Secret Seeing Walking Meetings Ministers Pockets Eggs Prime Prime Minister

Author:Edward Heath

“What, concretely, is Enlightenment ?" "Seeing Reality as it is," said the Master. "Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?" "Oh, no! Most people see it as they think it is." "What's the difference?" "The difference between thinking you are drowning in a stormy sea and knowing you cannot drown because there isn't any water in sight for miles around.”

People Thinking Said Reality Water Differences Knowing Seeing Sea Masters Enlightenment Sight Miles Drowning Stormy Stormy Seas

Author:Anthony de Mello

“We have restricted humans from giving 'free' food to bears and dolphins because we know that such feeding would make them dependent and lead to their extinction. But when it comes to our own species, we have difficulty seeing the connection between short-term kindness and long-term cruelty; we give women money to have more children, making them more dependent with each child and discouraging them from developing the tools to fend for themselves. The real discrimination against women, then, is 'free feeding'.”

Source: The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex

“I have a kind of psychic invisibility. As long as I can stay scared, I can keep people from seeing me. That's what we have to count on.”

People Kind Long I Can Seeing Scared Psychics Invisibility

Author:Larry Niven

“The successful sale of British Telecom... reveals a vast and untapped yearning among ordinary people for a direct stake in the ownership of British enterprise. Investment in shares has begun to take its place, with ownership of a home and either a bank or building society deposit, as a way for ordinary people to participate in enterprise and wealth creation. We are seeing the birth of people's capitalism.”

“My only regret is that I'm going before that rat, Robespierre! [to his executioner] Don't forget to show my head to the people; it's well worth seeing.”

People Wells Shows Forget Seeing Regret Rats Last Words Executioners

Author:Georges Danton

“I don't do any Class A - especially not cocaine - after seeing what it does to people.”

People Doe Class Seeing Cocaine

Author:Kate Moss

“Spirit is matter seen in a stronger light. What else did Malebranche mean when he spoke of "seeing all things in God"? Existence is a mystery because the light of it is inexhaustible.”

Mean Matter Light Spirit Existence Seeing Mystery All Things Stronger Spokes God Exists

Author:L. P. Jacks

“Laughter is the climax in the tragedy of seeing, hearing and smelling self-consciously.”

Self Seeing Laughter Tragedy Hearing Climax

Author:Wyndham Lewis

“I don't remember the first image of a werewolf I saw, but I suspect it was the hybrid type, up on two legs, with long limbs, hair, claw-like fingernails and lupine head. To me there's nothing scary about complete transformation from human into wolf. Wolves aren't scary. They're dangerous, yes, but so are geese, in the wrong mood. What's scary is seeing the human in the wolf but knowing it's beyond the reach of reason or emotional appeal. That's where the horror and dread kicks in.”

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