Quote by Honoré de Balzac

Published november 13, 2014 16:15

"Thinking is seeing," said he one day, carried away by some objection raised as to the first principles of our organisation. "Every human science is based on deduction, which is a slow process of seeing by which we work up from the effect to the cause; or, in a wider sense, all poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things."