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is a skill to be learned via accustoming the eye to calm, to patience, to the deferral of judgment, to letting-things-come-to-it.

Learn to see accustoming the eye to calm, to patience, to letting-things-come-to-it... learning to defer judgment, to encircle and encompass the question on all sides. Friedrich Nietzsche

is for those with a kind of lightless dark is the night of darkness, a mere act where one's eyes are full of light but one sees nothing in sea or sky, nothing in city streets, nothing in books. As such, it were far better to sail forever in the night of blindness with sense, and feeling, and mind, than to be content with the mere act of seeing.

I have walked with people whose eyes are full of light but who see nothing in sea or sky, nothing in city streets, nothing in books. It were far better to sail forever in the night of blindness with sense, and feeling, and mind, than to be content with the mere act of seeing. The only lightless dark is the night of darkness in ignorance and insensibility. Helen Keller

is limited in essence by that which we expect to see and by what we are conditioned to see based on the definitions and classifications of our culture.

As members of society, most of us see only what we expect to see, and what we expect to see is what we are conditioned to see when we have learned the definition and classifications of our culture.' (Turner forest of 95).

is not in a settled relationship with knowing. When we see the sun set we know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.

The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set. We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight. John Berger

is not the proper object of the sense of sight. Since the proper object of sight is the visible, it is not through the sense of sight that we see that we are seeing.

Aristotle considers whether the sense of sight may also be said to have itself as object. Is it through the sense of sight that we see that we are seeing' Aristotle recognised that there was a way in which the senses appeared to communicate what they were doing, but the seeing itself could not be the proper object of the sense of sight, since the proper object of sight is the visible, the coloured. Aristotle's solution is to say that sight knows that it is seeing, per accidens. In Brentano's language, we apperceive ourselves having perceptions, we cannot observe these perceptions directly. (moran 'intro to phenomenology)

is often the result of looking for things.

By George!' cried the inspector. 'How did you ever see that'' Because I looked for it. Arthur Conan Doyle

is reflective of an inner quality such that the question is not what one looks at but what one sees.

It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see. Henry David Thoreau

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