eye of the mind
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
But I mean that he sees the masses of it with the eye of the mind and arrives by experiment at the details that best suit those masses.
From Wings and the Child or, the Building of Magic Cities by Nesbit, E. (Edith)
Therefore, like a prudent person, she looks with the light of most holy faith, which is in the eye of the mind, and beholds what is harmful and what is useful to her.
From Letters of Catherine Benincasa by Catherine, of Siena, Saint
Where we have a theory so completely established as the mechanical theory of heat it seems quite fair to have recourse to the eye of the senses to aid the eye of the mind.
From College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College by Klapper, Paul
All human beings, not utterly savage, long for some information about past times, and are delighted by narratives which present pictures to the eye of the mind.
From Lays of Ancient Rome by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron
As you must not stop your ears, or close your bodily eyes, so you must not shut the eye of the mind, or harden your heart.
From The Moral Economy by Perry, Ralph Barton