Quotes About Observation

The perfect woman indulges in literature just as she indulges in a small sin: as an experiment, in passing, looking around to see if anybody notices it — and to make sure that somebody does.

There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective knowing; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes, different eyes, we can use to observe one thing, the more complete will our concept of this thing, our objectivity, be.

And what magnificent instruments of observation we possess in our senses! This nose, for example, of which no philosopher has yet spoken with reverence and gratitude, is actually the most delicate instrument so far at our disposal: it is able to detect tiny chemical concentrations that even elude a spectroscope.

You have been a poor observer of life if you have not also seen the hand that, ever so gently – kills.

So bless me then, you tranquil eye that can behold even the greatest happiness without envy!

The discerning one walketh amongst men as amongst animals.

I myself, to be sure - I have as yet seen no great man. That which is great, the acutest eye is at present insensible to it. It is the kingdom of the populace.

I pass through this people and keep mine eyes open: they do not forgive me for do not envying their virtues. They bite at me, because I say unto them that for small people, small virtues are necessary - and because it is hard for me to understand that small people are necessary!

Naked have I seen both of them, the greatest man and the smallest man. All too similar are they still to each other. Verily, even the greatest found I all too human.

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Lighting and thunder require time; the light of the stars requires time; deeds, though done, still require time to be seen and heard.

and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.

If I must have pity, then I do not want to be called such; and if I do have pity, then rather from a distance.

It was odd how old buildings had secret spaces in them that weren't really hidden but were never noticed;

The reason that Fafhrd attached to Bwadres, rather than to any one of a vast number of livelier holy men with better prospects, was that he had seen Bwadres pat a deaf-and-dumb child on the head while (so far as Bwadres could have known) no one was looking and the incident (possibly unique in Lankhmar) had stuck in the mind of the barbarian.

Look deeply as I have into the gas-lit faces in the streets around us, in the streets of any American city, and you will see a carefully dissembled maniacal hatred, a hooded yet furnace-red glare—

Even at that, I don't suppose I should have been surprised. We all see things now and then.

The quick, daily glance into the half darkness became an integral part of his life.

The physicist takes water, abstracts its quantitatively measurable aspects, reaches results about these aspects, and ignores the rest.

As Augustine observed: "Late have I loved Thee, O Beauty, so ancient and so new. Late have I loved Thee.

The familiar would of sense experience is not entirely objectively real, but is to some extent a product of the scientists' reasoning.

Buddy eyed me closely. His eyes were filigreed with red. I watched as he went through one of those instantaneous mood swings that only drunks and menstruating women can manage.

a petri dish in the ocean of life.

Look at the air, listen to the buzzing of the sun, the same as yesterday and the day before. Today is Monday too.