Quotes About Perspective

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.

I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.

It's not true that married men live longer than single men. It only seems longer.

The difference between a great soul and an ordinary man is this: the latter weeps while leaving this body, whereas the former laughs. Death seems to him a mere play.

I believe the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.

To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty.

Man is the measure of all things, of the reality of those which are, and of the unreality of those which are not.

Every man's world picture is and always remains a construct of his mind and cannot be proved to have any other existence.

A man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong.

When a man makes alliance with the Almighty, giants look like grasshoppers.

Man becomes what he thinks about

Some of the best advice I've had comes from junior officers and enlisted men.

There are three attributes for which I am grateful to Fortune: that I was born, first, human and not animal; second, man and not woman; and third, Greek and not barbarian.

Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything.

Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man.

If you wanna talk about influence, man, then you've got to realize that influence is not influence. It's simply someone's idea going through my new mind.

Don't try to capture a man in one synthetic portrait, but rather in lots of snapshots taken at different times and in different circumstances.

No one trusts a model except the man who wrote it; everyone trusts an observation, except the man who made it.

The Christian is a man who can be certain about the ultimate even when he is most uncertain about the immediate.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

What a man sees depends both upon what he looks at and also upon what his previous visual-conceptual experience has taught him to see.

Sometimes, flying feels too godlike to be attained by man. Sometimes, the world from above seems too beautiful, too wonderful, too distant for human eyes to see .

A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no luster as you turn it in your hand, until you come to a particular angle; then it shows deep and beautiful colors.