Optical Mark Sense

Famous quotes containing the words optical, mark and/or sense:

“People who have realized that this is a dream imagine that it is easy to wake up, and are angry with those who continue sleeping, not considering that the whole world that environs them does not permit them to wake. Life proceeds as a series of optical illusions, artificial needs and imaginary sensations.”
—Alexander Herzen (1812–1870)

“It may be the more
That no line of her writing have I,
Nor a thread of her hair,
No mark of her late time as dame in her dwelling, whereby
I may picture her there.”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)

“We have need to be earth-born as well as heaven-born, gegeneis, as was said of the Titans of old, or in a better sense than they.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)