understanding Quotes

Weight, force and casual impulse, together with resistance, are the four external powers in which all the visible actions of mortals have their being and their end.

People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they shall adore those who have ears and hear nothing; they shall burn lamps for those who do not see.

There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.

The length of a man's outspread arms is equal to his height.

The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow.

Nature never breaks her own laws.

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.

Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.