Vision

“There's nothing you can know that isn't known It's easy.”

“And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions.”

“You’re actually socially isolating yourself with your phone. I feel like it’s kind of emasculating. This Google Glass really takes away that excuse.… It really opened my eyes to how much of my life I spent secluded away in email or social posts. My vision when we started Google 15 years ago was that eventually you wouldn’t have to have a search query at all — the information would just come to you as you needed it. This is the first form factor that can deliver that vision.”

“The Greeks elaborated several theories of vision. According to the Pythagoreans, Democritus, and others vision is caused by the projection of particles from the object seen, into the pupil of the eye. On the other hand Empedocles, the Platonists, and Euclid held the strange doctrine of ocular beams, according to which the eye itself sends out something which causes sight as soon as it meets something else emanated by the object.”

“Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.”

“In Nietzsche’s view nihilism is not a Weltanschauung that occurs at some time and place or another; it is rather the basic character of what happens in Occidental history.”

“Then purg'd with euphrasy and rueThe visual nerve, for he had much to see.”

“Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.”

“For any man with half an eye,To see what is not to be seen.”

“Vision without implementation is hallucination.”

“And finds with keen, discriminating sight,Black's not so black—nor white so very white.”

“And for to se, and eek for to be seye.”

“The age, wherein he lived was dark; but heCould not want sight, who taught the world to see.”

“The rarer sene, the lesse in mynde,The lesse in mynde, the lesser payne.”

“See and to be seen.”

“And every eyeGaz'd as before some brother of the sky.”

“For sight is woman-like and shuns the old.Who backwards looks).”

“Two men look out through the same bars:One sees the mud, and one the stars.”

“He that had neither beene kithe nor kin,Might have seene a full fayre sight.”