sábado, 13 de junho de 2009

the doors to the self


René Magritte, The Son of Man, 1964


"As Inga once pointed out to me, since Plato, Western philosophy and culture have had an ocular bias: vision is our dominant sense. We read each other through our eyes, and anatomically they are an extension of our brains. When we catch someone's eye, we look into a mind. A person without eyes is disturbing for the simple reason that eyes are the doors to the self."

Siri Hustvedt, The Sorrows of an American

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