Paul Virilio Quotes

It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?

Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

He who sees only what is before his eyes sees the worst part of every view.

I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.

Sometimes, when you're close to someone, you miss things. Other people can see them, but you can't.

Some people can't see the color red. That doesn't mean it isn't there.

I see as much as doors'll allow, open or shut.

There are eyes everywhere. No blind spot left. What shall we dream of when everything becomes visible? We'll dream of being blind.

... it's always interesting when one doesn't see. If you don't see what a thing means, you must be looking at it wrong way round.

If you give people more perspective of one object, they start to see it more clearly.

Interest which blinds some People, enlightens others.

If you're looking at things with the right set of eyes, people are endlessly fascinating. And then, of course, if you look at it the wrong way, then the whole world is horrible and tedious and boring. That's the battle, really--to keep looking at the world in the right way.

I can lip read, so I know what other people are saying about me - especially when I clock them in my rear view mirror.

You know, there's a thing about the woman across the room. You see the woman across the room, you think, She's so poised; she's so together. But she looks at you and you are the woman across the room for her.

His hands can't hit what his eyes can't see.

I've no doubt that those photographs i took will make people look at everything in a more interesting way - the little tear on one piece of paper, the shadow on another. But good painting has always done that - made you see things. And the most ordinary can be the most extraordinary.

How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding ; How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile.

Our perceiving self is nowhere to be found in the world-picture, because it itself is the world-picture.

A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.

It is just seeing-it is a very simple word-and to be a visionary is to be a seer. The problem is that most people can't see.

The observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of our endeavours to elude or avoid it.

We can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.

If you are like most people, then like most people, you don't know you're like most people.

People think that they see, but they don't.