“We don't see things in themselves, but only aspects of things. ”
“We don't see things how they are, we see things the way we are.”
“Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don't expect to see.”
“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
“As sentimentality towards animals can be overindulged, so, too, can grim realism, seeing only the things we want in animals and not the animals themselves.”
“In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.”