Know Thyself #103

Know Thyself:

My newest favorite quote is:

‘The more you know,
the more you see.’

– Aldous Huxley

I believe I had heard about it before now but it wasn’t until recently that I started to think about why I like this quote. Obvious reasons were:

• It makes you think
• I believe that ‘The more you know’ means the more you have thought about your thoughts, the clearer you can see the world for what it is. In my mind, a.k.a./= Wisdom
• Aldous Huxley who said this was also the author of Brave New World; a book that had a profound impact on me

But after nerdily looking into the quote, I liked it more when, according to topessaywriting.org on May 10, 2023*:

‘Huxley came up with the remark after losing his vision and embarking on a journey to understand how humans see.’

So add this to the list:

• Quote was uttered AFTER the philosopher, writer, ethicist, and scientist became blind and: ‘embarking on a journey to understand how humans see.’

I read on…..:

‘The remark implies that in order for individuals to see properly, they must also thinkclearly. According to Huxley’s theory, sight and cognition cannot be separated. Through combing the three aspects: sensation, selection, and perception, one is able to make sense of objects within (‘objects within is maybe a mistype of ‘world around us’ maybe?), thus making Huxley’s formula simple but lucid. The statement shows that once you have an understanding of different things you get to realize deeper aspects of those things, thus: beyond what the human eye can see, since you will have a different perspective due to your high(tend?) knowledge level…. it shows knowledge has great power to help people in understanding things which may at times appear complicated or hidden.*

So this amazing thinker took a situation that would have broken most people’s spirit and made lemonade?! He discovered that NOTICING more increases one’s capacity for WISDOM.

So in essence they are saying that Noticing allows you to know, which in turn allows you to see, which in turn allows you to notice, which allows you to know, which allows you to see, which allows you to notice…..

Damn.

*Topessay.org references: Lester, P.M. (2014), Visual Communication: Images with messages, Boston: Wadsworth/Cengage Learning Aldous Huxley

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