The lower classes of men though they do not think it worthwhile to record what they perceive nevertheless perceive everything that is worth noting the difference between them and a man of learning often consists in nothing more than the latter's facility for expression.
Remember yourself. Deep inside, you have an observer, a constant neutral witness to your posture, gesture, facial expression, breathing, taste, impressions of light and sound. Don't leap to interpret. Just be there and observe.
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Jonathan Price
The observer of the soul cannot penetrate into the soul, but there doubtless is a margin where he comes into contact with it.
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Franz Kafka
Observing is the basis of wisdom.
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Eraldo Banovac
It's like it ain't so much what a fellow does, but it's the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it.
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William Faulkner
The Thing about people who wanted to show you things was that sometimes their interest in granting you knowledge was laced with a little voyeuristic sadism. They were waiting for the Look or the Reaction, and they didn’t care what it was so long as...
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Jeff VanderMeer
More Quotes By G. C. Lichtenberg
A book is a mirror: if an ass peers into it you can't expect an apostle to look out.
Barbaric accuracy - whimpering humility.
Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.
Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay than they think.
Everyone is a genius at least once a year a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
