Quotes About Perspective

On croit en Dieu parce qu'on a été conditionné à croire en Dieu.

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they're old; they're about God hundreds of years ago. Not about God now. But God doesn't change. Men do though. What difference does that make? All the difference in the world

There are things known and things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

Vijaya nodded. "Pala is probably the only country in which an animal theologian would have no reason for believing in devils. For animals everywhere else, Satan, quite obviously, is Homo sapiens.

In the same way, the reader of a book who happens to be out of tune with the author's prevailing mood will be bored to death by the things that were written with the greatest enthusiasm. Or else, like the far-away correspondent, he may seize on something which for you was not essential, to make it of the core and kernel of the book.

Aldous Huxley

One knew in theory very well that others spoke of one contemptuously?—as one spoke of them. In practice?—it was hard to believe.

I suppose Epsilons don't really mind being Epsilons,' she said aloud. 'Of course they don't. How can they? They don't know what it's like being anything else. We'd mind, of course. But then we've been differently conditioned.

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Lo que importaba era más la felicidad que la verdad y la belleza.

Pala is probably the only country in which an animal theologian would have no reason for believing in devils. For animals everywhere else, Satan, quite obviously, is Homo sapiens.

The past is not something fixed and unalterable. Its facts are re-discovered by every succeeding generation, its values re-assessed, its meanings re-defined in the context of present tastes and preoccupations.

Uno cree las cosas porque ah sido condicionado para creerlas.

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Wherever collective memory based on selective use of the past holds sway, everyone thinks alike. When everyone thinks alike, no one thinks at all. A society where no one thinks at all is little more than a frenetic and debauched, if picturesque, village bazaar.

We all confront the parameters of our cage eventually. What we do when we reach those bars helps define us.

When burdened by the feeling that there are too many photographs in the world, I ask myself if there are too many flowers.

Nothing is more dead and dated than the book which once caused controversy.

The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.

A single ego is an absurdly narrow vantage point from which to view the world.

I do not think we were afraid of death; life had become such an infinitely boring alternation between a period of stimulation which failed to stimulate and of depression which hardly even depressed.

But to understand English is one thing; to understand an Englishman who talks is another.

Time and Space are Adverbs.