"That books do not take the place of experience, and that learning is no substitute for genius, are two kindred phenom…"

"The cultural bias of the translator inevitably shapes his or her perception of the materials being translated, often …"

"Everything you see or hear or experience in any way at all is specific to you. You create a universe by perceiving it…"

"That neither our Thoughts, nor Passions, nor Ideas formed by the Imagination, exist without the Mind, is what every B…"

"If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite."

"As men of inward light are wont To turn their optics in upon't."

"In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king."

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."

"The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is."

"They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve."