beholds
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“For the listener, who listens in the snow, / And, nothing himself, beholds / Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
In the Phaedrus, Plato describes the soul sprouting and growing wings when it beholds something beautiful.
From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022
Into the space once taken up by monthly pains and forbidden longings arrive mystical visions in which she beholds the Virgin Mary, first as virgin and then as mother.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 7, 2021
Theologically speaking, pride turns itself inward; it beholds the self and deems it sufficient.
From Washington Post • Jul. 4, 2018
The individual is thus a monad which is inwardly aware of its actuality—a genius which beholds itself.
From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich