Quotes About Perspective

MILO: It comes to the same thing. ANDREW: Things mostly do, you know.

A further distinction between people depends on whether they habitually place greater emphasis on the importance of outer objective events or inner subjective ones (i.e. whether their attitude to reality is characteristically extraverted or introverted).

Whether a belief is considered to be a delusion or not depends partly upon the intensity with which it is defended, and partly upon the numbers of people subscribing to it.

I have gone to war and now I can issue my complaint. I can sit on my porch and complain all day. And you must listen. Some of you will say to me: You signed the contract, you crying bitch, and you fought in a war because of your signature, no one held a gun to your head. This is true, but because I signed the contract and fulfilled my obligation to fight one of America's wars, I am entitled to speak, to say, I belong to a fucked situation.

Every war is different. Every war is the same.

I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.

I have never walked down Fifth Avenue alone without thinking of money. I have never walked there with a companion without talking of it.

One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.

It is not a mistake to have strong views. The mistake is to have nothing else.

If Churchill recommends optimism, who are you or I to quibble?

In general, if you can't imagine how anyone could hold the view you are attacking, you probably just don't understand it yet.

Arguing face to face can be a powerful thing, and done deftly and persistently, it can reinforce and build respect itself, even across major differences.

Be ready to be surprised. Be ready to hear evidence and arguments for positions you may not like. Be ready, even, to let yourself be swayed. True thinking is an open-ended process. The whole point is that you don't know when you start where you'll find yourself in the end.

Les miroirs sont nos auberges espagnoles.

Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.

A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.

If someone loves a flower of which just one example exists among all the millions and millions of stars, that's enough to make him happy when he looks at the stars.

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

All men have the stars, but they do not mean the same things for different people. For some they are guides, for others, no more than little lights in the sky. But all these are silent. You--you alone have the stars as no one else has them

Grown ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.

The human mind adjusts itself to a certain point of view, and those who have regarded nature from one angle, during a portion of their life, can adopt new ideas only with difficulty.

He'd dethroned the king, married the princess, and taken over the kingdom. Did he really expect me to believe he'd done so ingenuously, blundering forward with a heart full of the best intentions? I think he did. What was more, in that moment at least, he seemed to believe it himself.