Spectacles Quotes

• A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Marriage, Powerful

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.179, Courier Corporation

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• There is an objective reality out there, but we view it through the spectacles of our beliefs, attitudes, and values.

  David Myers

  Attitude, Reality, Views

  David G. Myers (1993). “Psicología social”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Literature

  "The League of Youth and Pillars of Society".

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• Some eyes want spectacles to see things clearly and distinctly: but let not those that use them therefore say nobody can see clearly without them.

  John Locke

  Eye, Perception, Use

  John Locke (1812). “The works of John Locke. To which is added the life of the author and a collection of several of his pieces, publ. by mr. Desmaizeaux”, p.114

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• Wearing spectacles makes men conceited, because spectacles raise them to a degree of sensual perfection which is far above the power of their own nature.

  Johann Peter Eckermann

  Conceited, Men, Perfection

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann, Frédéric Jacob Soret (1850). “Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret”, p.277

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• Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

  George Santayana

  Life, Predicaments, Inspirational Life

  Articles and Essays

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• The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.

  Guy Debord

  People, Social, Relation

  Guy Debord (2012). “Society Of The Spectacle”, p.30, Bread and Circuses Publishing

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• Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Moving, Dew, Wipe

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2012). “The Woman's Bible”, p.17, tredition

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• I've always thought the law ought to put on spectacles, it has mighty poor eyesight once in a while.

  Margaret Deland

  Law, Poor Eyesight, Ought

  Margaret Deland (1969). “Dr. Lavendar's People”

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• I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are.

  Harriet Martineau

  Writing, Literature, Traveler

  Harriet Martineau (2006). “Autobiography”, p.330, Broadview Press

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• I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in
  as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them
  annoy others.

  Robert Southey

  Eye, Littles, Annoying

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• I am getting to an age when I can only enjoy the last sport left. It is called hunting for your spectacles.

  Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon

  Sports, Hunting, Age

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• I think the audience would like to see movies that are stunning to watch. I really think they'd like to see spectacles.

  Jan de Bont

  Thinking, Watches, Stunning

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• Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge.

  William Hazlitt

  Common Sense, Substitutes, Cases

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1091, Delphi Classics

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• Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Sun

  Thomas De Quincey (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas De Quincey (Illustrated)”, p.159, Delphi Classics

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• Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as spectacles to look at nature with, than as blinds to keep out its strong light and shifting scenery from weak eyes and indolent dispositions. The learned are mere literary drudges.

  William Hazlitt

  Nature, Strong, Book

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1091, Delphi Classics

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• Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling - I can so well remember it. There was always something more - behind and beyond everything - to me, the golden spectacles were very, very big.

  Kate Greenaway

  Beautiful, Feelings, Golden

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• In the end, it is because the media are driven by the power and wealth of private individuals that they turn private lives into public spectacles. If every private life is now potentially public property, it is because private property has undermined public responsibility.

  Terry Eagleton

  Responsibility, Media, Life Is

  "Leveson inquiry: the frontiers of privacy" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2011.

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• Men. You can't live with them, you can't shoot them.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Men, Estate Agents, Drained

  Sarah Addison Allen (2007). “Garden Spells”, p.159, Bantam

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• On the one hand, we had great filmic spectacles that brought in big audiences, adults as well as primary and secondary school students. On the other hand, there were attempts to create contemporary Polish film.

  Andrzej Wajda

  School, Hands, Adults

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• Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for, I have grown not only gray, but almost blind in the service of my country. - March 15, 1783

  George Washington

  Country, Gentleman, Patriotism

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• If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.

  Josh Billings

  Funny, Happiness, Happy

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• 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.

  Guy Debord

  Modern, Accumulation, Representation

  Guy Debord (2012). “Society Of The Spectacle”, p.30, Bread and Circuses Publishing

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• Of the modern critics, although I disagree with almost everything she says, I admire Mary McCarthy's eloquence and social observation in 'Sights and Spectacles'; she thinks in print, but she doesn't have a real feel for the stage.

  John Lahr

  Real, Thinking, Sight

  "Questions for John Lahr". www.newyorker.com. January 23, 2009.

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• Summer movies are spectacles; that's what you pay 10 dollars to see. You want to get teased by effects sometimes. I think that will never stop.

  Jan de Bont

  Summer, Thinking, Dollars

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