Quotes About Perspective

The eye of the poet sees less clearly, but sees farther than the eye of the scientist.

Philosophy is not confined to philosophers, thank God. Everyone has a philosophy. As Cicero famously said, you have no choice between having a philosophy and not having one, only between having a good one and having a bad one. And not to admit that you have a philosophy at all is to have a bad one. For it is one that does not know itself. So how could it know anything else, especially us?

Perhaps even atheism versus theism is an example of this principle that an apparent either/or can really be a both/and. For I suspect that the God you insist does not exist is probably a God I also insist does not exist; and perhaps the God I maintain does exist is a God you have never denied.

Only because a bird doesn't swim in the ocean but flies in the air can it enter the ocean from above; only because God is not temporal can he enter into time.

As Buddha said, "All that we are is determined by our thoughts.

It's the same world as ours but also a different world because no two people see it in exactly the same way.

Modernism and Fundamentalism are popular—they are two quick and easy answers to a complex question.

See C. S. Lewis' essay "Meditation in a Toolshed" for this crucial distinction.) The

are more like Dog and Cat and Bird than like Lassie and Fido and Spot. Therefore

bad fortune is really just as good for you as good fortune is, in fact, it is better, because, he says, bad fortune teaches, while good fortune deceives. When

Chesterton said once that there is only one unanswerable argument against Christianity: Christians. And

Your problem, however big it is (or however small), is His wise and loving will to you, even though it may not look wise or loving. It is His deliberate permissive will. And your response to it is your response to Him.

U svakom podru?ju života, tajna je originalnosti prestati pokušavati biti originalan i re?i istinu onako kako je vidiš.

Our lives teem with numbers, but we sometimes forget that numberss are only tools. They have no soul; they may indeed become fetishes.

Markets look a lot less efficient from the banks of the Hudson than from the banks of the Charles.

Whoa, don't assume, dude, Marco said. My mom always said, when you assume you make an ass of u and me --

A problem that seems unsolvable always looks different in the light of a new day.

and magazines and listen to the same economists.

In general, if you polled all the doctors, I'd bet only a small percentage would turn out to be invested in medical stocks, and more would be invested in oil; and if you polled the shoe-store owners, more would be invested in aerospace than in shoes, while the aerospace engineers are more likely to dabble in shoe stocks. Why it is that stock certificates, like grasses, are always greener in somebody else's pasture I'm not sure.

That's not to say there's no such thing as an overvalued market, but there's no point worrying about it.

Thought presents itself (stands in front) of us and pretends that it does not represent.

For example,when a conflict surfaces in a dialogue people are likely to realize that there is a tension, but the tension arises, literally, from our thoughts. People will say, "It is our thoughts and the way we hold on to them that are in conflict, not us.

Why are you so unhappy? Because ninety-nine percent of what you think, And everything you do, Is for your self, And there isn't one.

If one member of a team sees a problem more systemically than others, that person's insight will get reliably discounted—if for no other reason than the intrinsic biases toward linear views in our normal everyday language.