I think seeing happens partly through the eyes, but not entirely.
There is no such thing as a complete consciousness.
[M]any believed but few knew very much.
Reference to believers in medieval Christendom.
We live in this world like a child who enters a room where a clever person is speaking. The child did not hear the beginning of the speech, and he leaves before the end; and there are certain things which he hears but does not understand
We mortals hear only the news, and know nothing at all.
I understand there are some men who are only half here. Let's not say men. Let's say people. People who are more or less obscure at times.
As long as a teaser saves some things, that's good.
We have a very narrow view of what is going on.
Intermittently she caught the gist of his sentences and supplied the rest from her subconscious, as one picks up the striking of a clock in the middle with only the rhythm of the first uncounted strokes lingering in the mind.
Contact with reality is not an all-or-nothing condition.
Sanity means the wholeness of the consciousness. And our society is only part conscious, like an idiot.
It strikes me that all our knowledge about the structure of our Earth is very much like what an old hen would know of the hundred-acre field in a corner of which she is scratching.
