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He who can take no great interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great.
He who can take no great interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great.
He alone is an acute observer, who can observe minutely without being observed.
He alone is an acute observer, who can observe minutely without being observed.
All of us are watchers--of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway--but few are observers. Everyone is looking, read more
All of us are watchers--of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway--but few are observers. Everyone is looking, not many are seeing.
This inescapable duty to observe oneself: if someone else is observing me, naturally I have to observe myself too; if read more
This inescapable duty to observe oneself: if someone else is observing me, naturally I have to observe myself too; if none observe me, I have to observe myself all the closer
Three brothers, three fortresses
Three brothers, three fortresses
We cannot create observers by saying "observe," but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and read more
We cannot create observers by saying "observe," but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses
We don't know who discovered water, but we know it wasn't the fish.
We don't know who discovered water, but we know it wasn't the fish.
One must always tell what one sees. Above all, which is more difficult, one must always see what one sees.
One must always tell what one sees. Above all, which is more difficult, one must always see what one sees.