Quotes About Perspective

The Bible says that the earth is immovable . It cannot be moved . So now is your chance to prove your point. Run outside and move the earth. Perhaps you and your friends could jump on it, or find a rocky outcrop and push it together. Maybe after that little experiment you will concede that the earth is immovable.

Billy Graham Dead? We Know Better.

What motivates us more: the fear of man or the fear of God? If we fear man more than we fear God, then we don't see God in truth. We see the Lord as less than a man—and this is proven by whose will we obey. A. W. Tozer said, "An idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.

Republicans are one health crisis away from being Democrats?

The first is that all effort to negate self only succeeds in affirming it. The second is that self is not a thing but a reference position.

The ordinary is immune to understanding because it cannot be placed outside human experience for examination.

If you smell baby diapers in a wine that smells like strawberries to me, that's OK. The winery isn't putting either in the wine.

One man's famine makes another man's feast.

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out.

A primary role of traditional religion is deathist rationalization—that is, rationalizing the tragedy of death as a good thing.

As the anthropologist Marshall Sahlins puts the matter: "We are the only people who assume that we have ascended from apes. Everybody else takes it for granted that they are descended from gods." —

This romancing of software from years or decades ago is comparable to people's idyllic view of life hundreds of years ago, when people were "unencumbered" by the frustrations of working with machines. Life was unfettered, perhaps, but it was also short, labor-intensive, poverty filled, and disease and disaster prone.

Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world. —ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

Yes, well, the subjective experience is the opposite of the objective reality

Necesario siempre me ha parecido una palabra exagerada

No puedo recordar a mi hermana, me pregunto sin embargo qué acerca a la gente al cañón de una escopeta y qué nos mantiene al resto alejados.

De los libros que ella me dio a leer mientras trataba de instruirme saqué la conclusión de que no hay cosas muy distintas en ningún lugar del mundo y que por eso la gente se viste de colores diferentes y canta canciones distintas para soñar por un segundo que algo distintos son.

Dicen que todo lo que sube baja y dicen que todo puede reemplazarse y en general dicen todo tipo de tonterías.

Los niños no tiene nada de mágico, la mayoría de las veces, son la misma mierda en dimensiones reducidas

Australian Aboriginal people is that they see the world in a multi-dimensional way – that's the only way I can describe it. Time is a more fluid concept for Aborigines than it is for us. Maybe they're string theorists, but I think that modern physical theory regarding the concept of time certainly has some resonance with an Aboriginal perspective. When

In the American mind, the outcome of the Revolution has always overshadowed the event itself.

What galled soldiers the most was the apparent well-being of those who chose not to fight. Although many civilians, like their counterparts in the army, suffered from shortages and high prices, the men who endured hunger, cold, and enemy fire on behalf of their country could not abide by those farmers and merchants who appeared to prosper

Yet patriot masters apparently felt the need to fabricate such arguments, if only to relieve their own consciences. Understandably, they preferred to envision themselves as purveyors of freedom, the British as engineers of slavery. But it wasn't true, and the slaves undoubtedly knew this.

If we look at what women themselves had to say, we see that many were not overly enthusiastic about their men leaving home.