Optical Mark Sense

Famous quotes containing the words optical, mark and/or sense:

    “The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity.”
    —Victor Hugo (1802–1885)

    “Love was before the light began,
    When light if over,love shall be”
    —Unknown. The Thousand and One Nights.

    AWP. Anthology of World Poetry, An. Mark Van Doren, ed. (Rev. and enl. Ed., 1936)

    “Then let us pray that come it may,—
    As come it will for a’ that,—
    That sense and worth, o’er a’ the earth,
    May bear the gree, an’ a’ that.
    For a’ that, and a’ that,
    It’s comin’ yet, for a’ that—
    That man to man, the warld o’er,
    Shall brithers be for a’ that.”
    —Robert Burns (1759–1796)