In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.
The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy.
It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.
Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears.
You can't observe as much if you're observed by others.
I look at ordinary objects, and I see things that other people don't see. That's why I'm a photographer.
For an object under the eye will appear very different from the same object placed above it; in an inclosed space, very different from the same in an open space.
Vision looks inward and becomes duty.
Telescopes and microscopes bring to our view the otherwise unseen and unknown.
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