We do not know what things look like. We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing,this seeing. -Aunt Beast
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the difference between perception and reality, suggesting that our understanding is often limited by our sight.
Aunt Beast's words highlight the distinction between superficial appearances and deeper truths. The act of seeing can confine us to a narrow view of the world, preventing us from perceiving the full essence of things, which requires deeper understanding and insight beyond mere visual observation.
In practice
During a philosophical discussion, one might use this quote to illustrate the concept of subjective reality.
Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict or deny facts, but it goes through and beyond facts. This is something that it is very difficult for some people to understand. Truth can be dangerous.
George MacDonald gives me renewed strength during times of trouble--times when I have seen people tempted to deny God--when he says, "The Son of God suffered unto death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like his.
If you don't recount your family history, it will be lost. Honor your own stories and tell them too. The tales may not seem very important, but they are what binds families and makes each of us who we are.
I never want to lose the story-loving child within me, or the adolescent, or the young woman, or the middle-aged one, because all together they help me to be fully alive on this journey, and show me that I must be willing to go where it takes me, even through the valley of the shadow.
The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we forget the questions.
When we believe in the impossible, it becomes possible, and we can do all kinds of extraordinary things.
The (method of) correction shall by a turn become distortion, and the good in it shall by a turn become evil.
In our early youth we sit before the life that lies ahead of us like children sitting before the curtain in a theatre, in happy and tense anticipation of whatever is going to appear. Luckily we do not know what really will appear.
Equality and prosperity shouldn't be seen as enemies of each other, but as partners. One reinforces the other.
War: A by-product of the arts of peace.
Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet...Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God.
Just as none of us is outside or beyond geography, none of us is completely free from the struggle over geography. That struggle is complex and interesting because it is not only about soldiers and cannons but also about ideas, about forms, about images and imaginings.
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