Quotes About Perspective

All altruism springs from putting yourself in the other person's place.

To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their places.

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.

Membenci orang lain adalah laksana membakar rumah kita sendiri untuk mengusir seekor tikus.

Men are given to complaining of unanswered prayer, but the great disasters are due to answered prayers.

Let me tell you, I may look old but that's just because of my age.

But cynicism is only disappointed idealism.

Books are our windows on the world. They permit us to safely experience other lives and ways of thinking and feeling. Books give us a glimmer of the complexity and wonder of life. All this, the censor would deny us.

There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but only one view.

Manchmal denke ich – und es fällt mir schwer das zu sagen -, daß er die Menschen besser kennt als der Chef. Der Chef ist ein Idealist, ein großer Schatz, der das Beste für die Menschen will, ohne zu wissen, mit wem er es eigentlich zu tun hat. Luzifer aber weiß, daß sie lieber Himmel und Erde untergehen lassen würden, als ihr Auto abzumelden.

Even extraordinary circumstances could seem perfectly natural, simply because they were as they were; and in that case the awareness of their extraordinariness only dawned when others found them extraordinary.

Still, national politics meant little to him: about as much as paper airplanes would mean to the survivor of a plane crash.

Nu moet het echt uit zijn, Onno,' zei zij zacht. 'Er zijn grenzen.' 'Wie heeft jou dat wijsgemaakt?

I never understood how anyone could feel small compared with the universe. After all, man knows how overwhelmingly large it is, and a few others things besides, and that means he is not small. The fact that man has discovered all this precisely proves his greatness.

If you find life absurd, shouldn't you find death precisely meaningful?

You see what you want to see, and you hear what you want to hear.

The examination of even a small part of the world's music and what it means to various peoples and to various creative persons is in some ways rather like a plunge into dominant night. It is a plunge into a realm of the comparatively

The only thing new in this world is the history that you don't know

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is a leader.

It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose your own.

The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know.