Johannes Kepler Quotes

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

It can't be Nature, for it is not sense.

You wish to see; listen. Hearing is a step toward Vision.

In what we really understand, we reason but little.

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment to discover plain truths or to reject absurdities and palpable contradictions.

Common sense is not so common.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind

You're chained to you reason ... Understanding is only a very small affair, so very small

Many an object is not seen, though it falls within the range of our visual ray, because it does not come within the range of our intellectual ray.

Intuition transcends reason, but does not contradict it

An object is frequently not seen, from not knowing how to see it, rather than from any defect of the organ of vision.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

There are clear cases in which 'understanding' literally applies and clear cases in which it does not apply; and these two sorts of cases are all I need for this argument.

It is possible to interpret without observing, but not to observe without interpreting.

When you're sent something and read it, either you can see it while you read it, or you can't.

Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies.

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.