Quotes About Perspective

That all men are equal is a proposition which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent.

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.

It is only when we have renounced our preoccupation with I, me, mine, that we can truly possess the world in which we live. Everything, provided that we regard nothing as property. And not only is everything ours; it is also everybody else's.

two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary.

I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasure. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Happiness has got to be paid for. You're paying for it, Mr. Watson–paying because you happen to be too much interested in beauty. I was too much interested in truth; I paid too.

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what's going on in his heart and mind.

Who lives longer? The man who takes heroin for two years and dies, or a man who lives on roast beef, water and potatoes 'till 95? One passes his 24 months in eternity. All the years of the beefeater are lived only in time.

To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves.

It's a very salutary thing to realize that the rather dull universe in which most of us spend most of our time is not the only universe there is. I think it's healthy that people should have this experience.

I know the outer world as well as you do, and I judge it. You know nothing of my inner world, and yet you presume to judge that world.

Dream in a pragmatic way.

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.

You've got to be hurt and upset; otherwise you can't think of the really good, penetrating, X-rayish phrases.

But, Bernard, you're saying the most awful things.' 'Don't you wish you were free, Lenina?' 'I don't know what you mean. I am free. Free to have the most wonderful time. Everybody's happy nowadays.' He laughed, 'Yes, Everybody's happy nowadays. We begin giving children that at five. But wouldn't you like to be free to e happy in some other way, Lenina? In your own way, for example; not in everybody else's way.

Was and will make me ill, I take a gram and only am.

Happiness is a hard master--particularly other people's happiness. A much harder master, if one isn't conditioned to accept it unquestionably, than truth.

A funny little literary article in the hand is worth at least three Critiques of Pure Reason in the bush.

Mescalin opens up the way of Mary, but shuts the door on that of Martha.

What I'm going to tell you now, he said, may sound incredible. But then, when you're not accustomed to history, most facts about the past DO seem incredible.

To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift.

People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.