There is a difference if we see something with a pencil in our hand or without one.
What Degas called 'a way of seeing' must consequently bear a wide enough interpretation to include way of being, power, knowledge, and will.
We hope vaguely but dread precisely.
Power without abuse loses its charm.
A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others.
The mind has transformed the world, and the world is repaying it with interest. It has led man where he had no idea how to go.