Alan Watts
Philosopher, Writer
"LSD is simply an exploratory instrument like a microscope or telescope, except this one is inside of you instead of outside of you."
Microscopes quotes
Microscopes
29 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Kamasi Washington
Musician
"Jazz is like a telescope, and a lot of other music is like a microscope."
Victor Hugo
Novelist, Poet
"Philosophy is the microscope of thought."
Amy Lee
Musician
"Whether it's a relationship or what you're wearing, or how much you weigh and what you said when you didn't mean it, like - it's hard to be totally under the microscope."
Victor Hugo
Novelist, Poet
"Where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and which has the wider vision?"
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"The human heart concerns us more than the poring into microscopes, and is larger than can be measured by the pompous figures of the astronomer."
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"Taste is, so to speak, the microscope of the judgment."
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"It is not only that there is no hiding place for the gods from the searching telescope and microscope; there is no such society any more as the gods once supported."
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"Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it."
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"We should picture the instrument that carries our mental functioning as resembling a compound microscope or photographic apparatus."
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"I'm always going to be under a microscope, and I haven't always handled it well."
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"The telescope makes the world smaller; it is only the microscope that makes it larger."
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