"My own eyes are not enough for..." - Quote by C S Lewis
My own eyes are not enough for me; I will see through those of others.
More by C S Lewis
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung.”
“Every object you see before you at this moment -the walls, ceiling, and furniture, the book, your own washed hands and cut fingernails, bears witness to the colonization of Nature of Reason.”
“A sensible human once said, "If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit"; and again, "She's the sort of woman who lives for others you can always tell the others by their hunted expression.”
More on Perspective
“The domestic man, who loves no music so well as his kitchen clock, and the airs which the logs sing to him as they burn on the hearth, has solaces which others never dream of.”
“Sire, you are looking at a plain man, and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit.”
“When I think of vision, I have in mind the ability to see above and beyond the majority.”
More on Understanding
“To a mathematician the eleventh means only a single unit: to the bushman who cannot count further than his ten fingers it is an incalculable myriad.”
“Men who think deeply appear to be comedians in their dealings with others because they always have to feign superficiality in order to be understood.”
“Awakening of Western thought will not be complete until that thought steps outside itself and comes to an understanding with the search for a world-view as this manifests itself in thethought of mankind as a whole.”