Quotes About Perspective

It's just the way things are. she shrugged. It's no one's fault. Or everyone's.

In the blue time, math kicked ass. -Dess

If you see everything through hovercams and feed stories, you wind up blind to what's right in front of you.

He and I have this... personality conflict. Namely, I think he should get a new one.

You don't believe all that crap, do you - that there's one way to look, and everyone is programmed to agree on it?

maybe when you look at your face 50 times its really not that interesting anymore

But you know what? It's not my behavior I'm worried about anymore. It's yours.

Two weeks of killer sunburn is worth a lifetime of being gorgeous

Du hast so viele Leben, wie du Sprachen sprichst. (You have as many lives as the number of languages you speak.)

For only to the extent that we empathize do we have the right to speak about a matter.

I can promise to be sincere, but not to be impartial.

Can that be a delusion which makes us happy?

Of what importance is it that I have learned, with every schoolboy, that the world is round? Man needs but little earth for enjoyment, and still less for his final repose.

Even if Man's accustomed to take His small world for the Whole, that's his mistake:

The eye is the worst way to judge.

We human bekngsoften complain that there are so few good days and so many bad ones; but I think we are generally wrong. If our hearts were always open to enjoy the good, which God gives us Every day, then we should also have enough strength to hear the evil, whenever it comes.

Memory extends as far as our self-interest.

How many new discoveries does not a person make when on some high point he ascends but a single story higher.

Where sense fails it's only necessary [1995] To supply a word, and change the tense.

Moet ik dan soms in duizend boeken lezen dat er op aarde veel wordt afgetobd en maar een enkeling gelukkig zit te wezen?

Ich weiss weder dass Tag noch dass Nacht ist, und die ganze Welt verliert sich um mich her

Mathematicians are a kind of Frenchman. They translate into their own language whatever is said to them and forthwith the thing is utterly changed.

If I'm to listen to someone else's opinion, it must be put in a positive way; I have enough problematic speculations in my own head

Em vão o homem ajuizado e razoável contemplará o estado do infeliz, em vão lhe dará seus conselhos! Da mesma forma que um homem saudável, parado junto ao leito do enfermo, jamais poderá transmitir-lhe a parte mais insignificante de suas energias.