"No one is offended at not seeing..." - Quote by Blaise Pascal
No one is offended at not seeing everything; but one does not like to be mistaken, and that perhaps arises from the fact that man naturally cannot see everything, and that naturally he cannot err in the side he looks at, since the perceptions of our senses are always true.
More by Blaise Pascal
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“By thought I embrace the universe.”
“How vain painting is-we admire the realistic depiction of objects which in their original state we don't admire at all.”
More on Perception
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“The near explains the far. The drop is a small ocean. A man is related to all nature. This perception of the worth of the vulgar is fruitful in discoveries. Goethe, in this very thing the most modern of the moderns, has shown us, as none ever did, the genius of the ancients.”