Quotes About Perspective

Com os olhos abertos, repartimos o mesmo mundo; com os olhos fechados cada um de nós penetra o seu próprio mundo.

To God all things are beautiful, good, and right human beings, on the other hand, deem some things right and others wrong. It would not be better if things happened to people just as they wish.

To get everything you want is not a good thing. Disease makes health seem sweet. Hunger leads to the appreciation of being full-fed. Tiredness creates the enjoyment of resting

The sun is the width of a human foot.

The waking have one world in common; sleepers have each a private world of his own.

Always having what we want may not be the best good fortune Health seems sweetest after sickness, food in hunger, goodness in the wake of evil, and at the end of daylong labor sleep.

Many who have learned from Hesiod the countless names of gods and monsters never understand that night and day are one

To God all things are fair and good and right, but men hold some things wrong and some right.

If they are gods, why do you lament them? If you lament them, you must no longer regard them as gods.

Although the Word is common to all, many live as if they had a private understanding of their own

The waking have one world in common. Sleepers meanwhile turn aside, each into a darkness of his own.

Graspings: wholes and not wholes, convergent divergent, consonant dissonant, from all things one and from one thing all.

The way upward and the way downward are the same.

Upon those who step into the same rivers different and ever different waters flow down.

Though the logos is common, the many live as if they had a wisdom of their own.

One day if I do go to heaven...I'll look around and say, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.

Isn't it nice that people who prefer Los Angeles to San Francisco live there?

There's a way to break out of this bind: Don't act as though your limited experience represents universal truths. It doesn't. Force yourself to go outside your own experience by vigorously testing your assumptions.

Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you.

The very fact of its finding itself in agreement with other minds perturbs it, so that it hunts for points of divergence, feeling the urgent need to make it clear that at least it reached the same conclusions by a different route.

If history can do anything it is to remind us that all our judgments are merely relative to time and circumstance.

The raconteur knows too well that, if he investigates the truth of the matter, he is only too likely to lose his good story.

The historian is never more himself than when he is searching his mind for a general statement that shall in itself give the hint of its own underlying complexity.

All men are equal before fish.