There is an objective reality out there, but we view it through the spectacles of our beliefs, attitudes, and values.
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
Some eyes want spectacles to see things clearly and distinctly: but let not those that use them therefore say nobody can see clearly without them.
Wearing spectacles makes men conceited, because spectacles raise them to a degree of sensual perfection which is far above the power of their own nature.
The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.
Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.
Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
I've always thought the law ought to put on spectacles, it has mighty poor eyesight once in a while.
I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are.
I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.
Scripture is like a pair of spectacles which dispels the darkness and gives us a clear view of God.
I think the audience would like to see movies that are stunning to watch. I really think they'd like to see spectacles.
I am getting to an age when I can only enjoy the last sport left. It is called hunting for your spectacles.
Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling - I can so well remember it. There was always something more - behind and beyond everything - to me, the golden spectacles were very, very big.
Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as spectacles to look at nature with, than as blinds to keep out its strong light and shifting scenery from weak eyes and indolent dispositions. The learned are mere literary drudges.
Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge.
Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest.
In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.
Men. You can't live with them, you can't shoot them.
On the one hand, we had great filmic spectacles that brought in big audiences, adults as well as primary and secondary school students. On the other hand, there were attempts to create contemporary Polish film.
In the end, it is because the media are driven by the power and wealth of private individuals that they turn private lives into public spectacles. If every private life is now potentially public property, it is because private property has undermined public responsibility.
Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for, I have grown not only gray, but almost blind in the service of my country. - March 15, 1783
If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.
Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.
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