We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.

We see things not as they are, but as we are ourselves.

I see them as they are to is And not the seeming isness of the was.

To see the object as in itself it really is

We see things not as they are, but as we are. Because it is the 'I' behind the 'eye' that does the seeing.

You see persons and things not as they are but as you are.

The true purpose is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes.

My mission is to see things as they are. Exactly the contrary of a mission.

I want to be able to look at and into a juniper tree, a piece of quartz, a vulture, a spider, and see it as it is in itself, devoid of all humanly ascribed qualities, anti-Kantian, even the categories of scientific description.

I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.

The principle to be kept in mind is to know what we see rather than to see what we know.

To see others more clearly, set aside your opinions, advice, and judgment, and put their truth above your own.

If only, I feel now, if only I could be someone able to see all this as if he had no other relation with it than that of seeing it, someone able to observe everything as if he were an adult traveler newly arrived today on the surface of life! If only one had not learned, from birth onwards, to give certain accepted meanings to everything, but instead was able to see the meaning inherent in each thing rather than that imposed on it from without. If only one could know the human reality of the woman selling fish and go beyond just labeling her a fishwife and the known fact that she exists and sells fish. If only one could see the policeman as God sees him. If only one could notice everything for the first time, not apocalyptically, as if they were revelations of the Mystery, but directly as the flowerings of Reality.

Remember, we see the world not as it is but as we are.