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The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.

is, along with the ear, a bad witness to men with barbarian souls.

Eyes and ears are bad witnesses to men having barbarian souls. (heraclitus .pdf)

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is impatient and craves the novel and is bored by repetition.The ear is lazy and craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected... the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition. W. H. Auden

is indisputably seductive... nothing is more attractive in the bodies of animals and men. It bears mentioning that extreme seductiveness is probably at the boundary of horror.

It seems impossible, in fact, to judge the eye using any word other than seductive, since nothing is more attractive in the bodies of animals and men. But extreme seductiveness is probably at the boundary of horror. Georges Bataille

is not open when it is limited to the passive role of a reflecting mirror.

the eye is not open when it is limited to the passive role of a mirror... if it has only the capacity to reflect.

is not to be depended on when one's imagination is out of focus.

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. Mark Twain

is only a witness... it is not a judge. The mind judges what the eye reports to it... therefore, whatever elevates the moral sentiment to the contemplation of beauty and grandeur is in itself ethical.

Art itself is essentially ethical... because every true work of art must have a beauty or grandeur of some kind, and beauty and grandeur cannot be comprehended by the beholder except through the moral sentiment. The eye is only a witness... it is not a judge. The mind judges what the eye reports to it... therefore, whatever elevates the moral sentiment to the contemplation of beauty and grandeur is in itself ethical. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)

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