Quotes About Viewpoint

Even if you tied yourself to the ceiling with ropes and looked down, you would not see what the architecturally correct blueprint shows. You would see some degree of perspective (three dimensionality), and the perspective would vary depending on what part of the ceiling you looked down from. If the whole class tied themselves to the ceiling, their drawings would have as many different perspectives as the drawings made from ground level.

Trivial, he echoed. Perhaps. Then again, maybe it's all in the way you look at it

As he did not go into Society himself, he had got an idea that these things belonged to the things that didn't really matter. (We know of course that he was wrong, and took too narrow a view; because they do matter very much, though it would take too long to explain why.)

Rigour and ruthlessness do not preclude sympathy with another's point of view.

From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist.

From a historical viewpoint, religion is just a kind of superstition, and from a political viewpoint it is a tool of social control.

It is not a matter of whether one is biased or not. It is really a question of which bias is the best bias with which to be biased.

Odds are just the people opinion. Respect your own opinion.

People always have an opinion. Doesn't mean it's right, doesn't mean it's wrong, but we have to respect their opinion.

Criticism is just someone's opinion you don't agree with!

I rather despise claims to objectivity in philosophy; the point of view is the thing.

Truth is what you think, not what you find.

What I want to propose to you is that it is possible to achieve the freedom to have any viewpoint you choose and therefore any reality.

Ego is "I"; it is your singular point of view. In innocence this point of view is pure, like a clear lens. But without innocence the ego's focus is extremely distorting.

Am I on your page?" Jesse asked. Rosie knew Jesse liked her, loved her, maybe, but this was not about that. "Yes," Rosie said, making eye contact with Jesse. "How could you not be on my page? ... (But) even though we are on the same page, we see the page differently," Rosie had continued, enjoying the moment, "my page -- which I admit you are on -- is not the page that you think you are on. You will never see the page the same as me. You cannot look through my eyes and see what I see.

One of the principal objects of theoretical research in my department of knowledge is to find the point of view from which the subject appears in its greatest simplicity.

Renaissance painters saw everything from one perspective, photographically, "realistically," but medieval painters looked at a scene from several different perspectives at once. A medieval picture looked at with this in mind becomes very exciting indeed. It is as if the artist is everywhere at once: the castle is tiny as if seen from afar; the men on its battlements huge as if encountered face to face; this lake is seen from that distance and that tree from this.

In that moment, I wish I could see it through his eyes. I wish he had glasses to give me.

It is always the Germans who cause the trouble, what is it about Germans that they must molest and oppress?... They have never been civilized, said Sosthene...They were never conquered by Roman. They remain barbarians. Phoebe stared at him. It was a viewpoint... One is perhaps inclined to forget that even here in Britain that were four hundred years of the Pax Romana, he said gently. In Germany, no -- only the Vandals and the Goths. Every so often they burst out. It is in the breed.

Far too often, we have limited the definition of the Church. While not in all cases, in many cases, 'Church' has become an informational, inspirational weekly gathering rather than the group of people that God has ordained from Heaven to operate on his behalf on Earth in order to bring Heaven's viewpoint into history.

I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at the world that you can't get rid of.

The premise of my book is that everyone is a bit ideological to some extent. Everyone comes from a ideological perspective.

The point of view is the biggest problem with games, because what we play must be clearly presented in the best way for me to have an immersive game experience.

Defenders see things way different than blockers.