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)

    “And a voice came from heaven, “You are my Son, the Beloved; with you I am well pleased.””
    —Bible: New Testament, Mark 1:11.

    “The Iliad represents no creed nor opinion, and we read it with a rare sense of freedom and irresponsibility, as if we trod on native ground, and were autochthones of the soil.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)