"My own eyes are not enough for..." - Quote by C S Lewis
My own eyes are not enough for me...I will see through the eyes of others. Reality, even seen through the eyes of many is not enough...I will see what others have invented. Even the eyes of all humanity are not enough. I regret that the brutes cannot write books. Very gladly would I learn what face things present to a mouse or a bee. More gladly still would I perceive the olfactory world charged with all the information and emotion it carries for a dog.
More by C S Lewis
“If you find that the reader of popular romances--however uneducated a reader, however bad the romances--goes back to his old favourites again and again, then you have pretty good evidence that they are to him a sort of poetry.”
“The real Oxford is a close corporation of jolly, untidy, lazy, good-for-nothing humorous old men, who have been electing their own successors ever since the world began and who intend to go on with it. They'll squeeze under the Revolution or leap over it when the time comes, don't you worry.”
“To move with the times is, of course, to go where all times go.”
More on Perception
“An intense feeling carries with it its own universe, magnificent or wretched as the case may be.”
“A man does not wonder at what he sees frequently, even though he be ignorant of the reason. If anything happens which he has not seen before, he calls it a prodigy.”
“Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.”
More on Empathy
“The satiated person and the hungry one do not see the same thing when they look upon a loaf of bread.”
“When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.”
“Three quarters of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world would finish if people were to put on the shoes of their adversaries and understood their points of view”