Quotes About Perspective

everything is ridiculous if one thinks of death

In theory we understand people, but in practice we can't put up with them, I thought, deal with them for the most part reluctantly and always treat them from our point of view. We should observe and treat people not from our point of view but from all angles, I thought, associate with them in such a way that we can say we associate with them so to speak in a completely unbiased way, which however isn't possible, since we actually are always biased against everybody.

There is more evil in the least sin than in the greatest affliction.

Sin is hell, grace is heaven; what madness it is to look more at hell than heaven.

Humility makes a man richer than other men, and it makes a man judge himself the poorest among men.

The Lord Jesus... sweetens all other gifts that are bestowed upon the sons of men. He turns every bitter into sweet, and makes every sweet more sweet.

Think it more satisfactory to live richly than to die rich

I knew that the tears of adults were wetter, saltier, and much, much sadder than those of a child

A man's love for a man is neither more nor less than a man's love for a woman, it is only different.

Always" and "never" are not words that have much meaning in literary study. For one thing, as soon as something seems to always be true, some wise guy will come along and write something to prove that it's not.

When it's over, we may feel wooed, adored, appreciated, or abused, but it will have been an affair to remember.

By the mid-seventeenth century, the visible image has assumed far greater reality than the invisible thought.

'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view,And robes the mountain in its azure hue.

The smaller your reality, the more convinced you are that you know everything.

If we grabbed a materialist by the throat and squeezed very hard so he could not breathe, would it prove to his lungs that there is no such thing as air without a throat?

Have not I myself known five hundred living soldiers sabred into crows' meat for a piece of glazed cotton, which they call their flag; which had you sold it at any market-cross, would not have brought above three groschen?

Histories are a kind of distilled newspapers.

History is a great dust heap.

It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.

In a certain sense all men are historians.

No man sees far; the most see no farther than their noses.

No sooner is your ocean filled, than he grumbles that it might have been of better vintage. Try him with half of a Universe, of an Omnipotence, he sets to quarrelling with the proprietor of the other half, and declares himself the most maltreated of men.—Always there is a black spot in our sunshine: it is even, as I said, the Shadow of Ourselves.

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.