Quotes About Perspective

Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite another.

My greatness does not extend to this shelf.

We are in the hands of those gods, those monsters, those giants: our thoughts.

And so, being in Heaven, it was easy for him to lose sight of earth.

There is lucidity inspired by the nearness of the grave:to be close to death is to see clearly

Clearly, he had his own strange way of judging things. I suspect he acquired it from the Gospels.

I will weep with you over the children of kings, provided that you will weep with me over the children of the people

Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has a grander view?

All is not at an end on earth since we can still talk nonsense.

In fact, he who has only beheld the misery of man has seen nothing; the misery of woman is what he must see; he who has seen only the misery of woman has seen nothing; he must see the misery of the child.

Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.

We may remain more or less open-minded on the subject of the death penalty, indisposed to commit ourselves, so long as we have not seen a guillotine with our own eyes.

With the exercise of a little care, the nettle could be made useful; it is neglected and it becomes hurtful. It is exterminated. How many men resemble the nettle! He added with a pause: Remember this, my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are only bad cultivators.

This is the shade of difference: the door of the physician should never be shut, the door of the priest should always be open.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

Ceci tuera cela

Monseigneur, you who turn everything to account have, nevertheless, one useless plot. It would be better to grow salads there than bouquets. Madame Magloire, retorted the Bishop, you are mistaken. The beautiful is as useful as the useful. He added after a pause, More so, perhaps.

Whither will suffering lead me? To nothingness; but I shall have suffered. Whither will enjoyment lead me? To nothingness; but I shall have enjoyed myself.

When I speak to you about myself, I'm speaking to you about yourself. How is it that you don't see that?

We may be indifferent to the death penalty and not declare ourselves either way so long as we have not seen a guillotine with our own eyes. But when we do, the shock is violent, and we are compelled to choose sides, for or against... Death belongs to God alone.

As the place is worth seeing, nobody goes there.

First I loved women, then animals, and now I love stones. They're just as amusing as women and animals and they're much less trecherous.

Philosophy is the microscope of the thought.

Every blade has two edges; he who wounds with the one is wounded with the other.