Quotes About Perspective

O lo que yo llamaba racional no lo era tanto como había pensado, o lo que me parecía irracional no lo era tanto como había pensado.

the mere fact of the death of a near acquaintance aroused, as usual, in all who heard of it the complacent feeling that, "it is he who is dead and not I.

But what's right and what's good must be judged by one who knows all, but not by us.

the assertion that you live in a lie while I live in the truth is the most cruel thing one person can say to another...

That's how it's always done with us, all the wrong way round!' the Russian officers and generals said after the battle of Tarutino, just as people speak now, letting it be felt that some fool somewhere does things that way, the wrong way round, but we would not do things that way. But people who talk like that either do not know what they are talking about or are deliberately deceiving themselves.

If you look for perfection, you will never be satisfied. And it's true, as papa says,—that when we were brought up there was one extreme—we were kept in the basement, while our parents lived in the best rooms; now it's just the other way—the parents are in the wash house, while the children are in the best rooms. Parents now are not expected to live at all, but to exist altogether for their children.

It most often happens that you argue hotly only because you can't understand what precisely your opponent wants to prove.

They haven't an idea of what happiness is; they don't know that without our love, for us there is neither happiness nor unhappiness—no life at all,

Pourquoi injuste ? Il ne nous est pas donné de savoir ce qui est juste ou injuste ! L'humanité s'est toujours trompée et se trompera toujours sur ce sujet.

I won't say life wouldn't be worth living without it, but it would be dull

The manner of life you have chosen is reflected, I suppose, in your ideas

He would often say the exact opposite of what he had said on a previous occasion, yet both would be right.

no difference is less easily overcome than the difference of opinion about semi-abstract questions,

How sweet he is!" said Countess Marya, looking at the baby and playing with him. "This is what I don't understand, Nicolas," she turned to her husband. "How is it you don't understand the charm of these charming little miracles?" "I just don't, I can't," said Nikolai, looking at the baby with a cold gaze. "A piece of meat.

People speak of misfortunes and sufferings," remarked Pierre, "but if at this moment I were asked: 'Would you rather be what you were before you were taken prisoner, or go through all this again?' then for heaven's sake let me again have captivity and horseflesh! We imagine that when we are thrown out of our usual ruts all is lost, but it is only then that what is new and good begins. While there is life there is happiness. There is much, much before us. I

?ikayet etti?iniz ya?am, belki de ba?kas?n?n hayalidir.

Caio é um homem,os homens são mortais, logo Caio é mortal", parecera-lhe a vida toda muito lógico e natural se aplicado a Caio, mas certamente não quando aplicado a ele próprio.

Am I mad because I see what others do not, or are they mad that do these things that I see?

watching the movement of history, we see that every year and with each new writer, opinion as to what is good for mankind changes; so that what once seemed good, ten years later seems bad, and vice versa.

there was a new feature in Pierre which won him the favor of all people: this was the recognition of the possibility for each person of thinking, feeling, and looking at things in his own way; the recognition of the impossibility of changing a person's opinion with words. This legitimate peculiarity of each person, which formerly had troubled and irritated Pierre, now constituted the basis of the sympathy and interest he took in people.

When during those first days he remembered that he would have to die, he said to himself: "Well, what of it? So much the better!

He was swept by a lovely, heart-warming sensation that was quite new to him; the sight of those two little girls had suddenly made him aware that there were such things as other human interests, million miles from his own but no less legitimate.

Cuánta gente, colmada de todo, se queja de continuo, lo encuentra todo mal y no acierta a gozar nunca de nada! Debemos mirar siempre hacia los que tienen menos que nosotros y contentarnos, y gozar de lo que poseemos sin alimentar nuestro espíritu de quimeras

La vida es siempre bella si sabemos mirarla con ojos apacibles, con luz de un alma en paz