Joseph Addison Quotes

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness.

I see through my eyes; the camera is just a machine to record it for me.

Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses.

The eye is the jewel of the body.

The biggest surprise watching video on the tiny, 2.5-inch screen (320 by 240 pixels) is completely immersive. Three unexpected factors are at work. First, the picture itself is sharp and vivid, with crisp action that never smears the screen is noticeably brighter than on previous iPods. Second, because the audio is piped directly into your ear sockets, it has much higher fidelity and presence than most peoples TV sets. Finally, remember that a 2.5-inch screen a foot from your face fills as much of your vision as a much larger screen thats across the room.

Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.

In opening them, he discovered that he had eyes.

Sight is the noblest sense of man.

O the eye's light is a noble gift of Heaven! All beings live from light, each fair created thing; the very plants turn with a joyful transport to the light.

For sight is woman-like and shuns the old.

The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.

Sight is by much the noblest of the senses. We receive our notices from the other four, through the organs of sensation only. We hear, we feel, we smell, we taste, by touch. But sight rises infinitely higher. It is refined above matter, and equals the faculty of spirit.

The Kiowas reckoned their stature by the distance they could see.

With vision we flourish.

I find it impossible to think of a picture save as a window, and my first concern about a window is to find out what it looks out on... and there is nothing I love so much as something which stretches away from me out of sight.

We are as much as we see. Faith is sight and knowledge. The hands only serve the eyes.

But we have been taught to see before our eyes have found out a way of seeing for themselves.

It is my eyes which see, and the sight of my eyes grants beauty to the earth.

It is only with the eyes open that a corporeal form returns, and assembles itself firmly around the hard core of sight.

Astronomers have a common ground for discussion with musicians in the harmony of the stars and musical concords in tetrads and triads of the fourth and the fifth, and with geometricians in the subject of vision; and in all other sciences many points, perhaps all, are common so far as the discussion of them is concerned. But the actual undertaking of works which are brought to perfection by the hand and its manipulation is the function of those who have been specially trained to deal with a single art.

Some of us come on earth seeing – some of us come on earth seeing color.

Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance!