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The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.

Telescopes and microscopes bring to our view the otherwise unseen and unknown.

We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.

In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.

We do not merely perceive objects and hold thoughts in our minds: all our perceptions and thought processes are felt. All have a distinctive component that announces an unequivocal link between images and the existence of life in our organism.

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.

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.