Hearing Threshold

Famous quotes containing the words hearing and/or threshold:

“A fearful man is always hearing things.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)

“One could love reason like an Encyclopaedist and still be favorably inclined toward mysticism. Throughout the ages, up to the eyes of van Gogh, when he looked at a coffee pot or a garden path, mysticism has expanded the human realm by all sorts of threshold experiences.”
—Robert Musil (1880–1942)