Famous quotes containing the words optical, mark and/or sense:
“There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“Surely knowledge of the natural world, knowledge of the human condition, knowledge of the nature and dynamics of society, knowledge of the past so that one may use it in experiencing the present and aspiring to the futureall of these, it would seem reasonable to suppose, are essential to an educated man. To these must be added anotherknowledge of the products of our artistic heritage that mark the history of our esthetic wonder and delight.”
—Jerome S. Bruner (20th century)
“Why juggle with the term bourgeois in regard to Flaubert? You know quite well that in Flauberts sense it was not a class category. In other words, Flaubert in the eyes of Marx was a bourgeois in the Marxist sense, while Marx in Flauberts eyes was a bourgeois in a Flaubertian sense.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (18991977)