Wearing spectacles makes men conceited, because spectacles raise them to a degree of sensual perfection which is far above the power of their own nature.
Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret (ed. 1850)
Wearing spectacles makes men conceited, because spectacles raise them to a degree of sensual perfection which is far above the power of their own nature.
Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret (ed. 1850)
