Quotes About Perspective

Johan: Jeg synes, livet er det værd, man lægger i det, hverken mere eller mindre. Jeg nægter at leve under evighedens synsvinkel. Scener fra et ægteskab

Life has precisely the value one puts on it.

Groupthink can then be formed with respect to this or that information

This means that knowledge rejected and disapproved of can also exist, but can be placed elsewhere than within the contexts of approved knowledge.

For more details about all of this, see THE USER ILLUSION: CUTTING CONSCIOUSNESS DOWN TO SIZE published by Tor Norretranders

Well, one mind existing as a three-dimensional thing communicating with another which is also a three-dimensional thing, and the communicating across the distance...is not the distance involved conceived of in three-dimensional terms?

WHO it is that constructs the realities is NOT at all clear.

also for some strategic reconceptualizing – which should deeply interest anyone trying to get out of the box.

Indeed, most people are culturally discouraged from making their own reality treks into reality constructing.

People fill in the unknown with what fits with THEIR known.

Getting old is like climbing a mountain; you get a little out of breath, but the view is much better!

He looked at the world from above. Where I saw threatening waves, he saw tranquil water.

Perhaps measuring animal intelligence by comparing it to human intelligence isn't the best litmus test.

suffice to say, joy is where you find it- usually on the shelf right next to sadness.

Never play the Devil's Advocate. Your words could be the difference between success and failure in someone else.

Once you acknowledge that reality is not your enemy, it will no longer be your enemy.

Since all men are created equal, I have to thank God I was born a woman.

You may just miss an awesome ride if you only look at happiness as a destination.

Have you ever been on a roller coaster, Togawa-kun? You're only riding on it for a few minutes, right? If you spent the entire ride thinking "only so many seconds left... until this ride is over..." then what was the point of riding it in the first place? Nobody knows why we're alive. We don't have the time to bother.

For many money is wealth, for me health is wealth." ~ Invajy

Che vale poter vedere in quarant'anni dieci volte, in vece che una, le quattro parti del mondo? Né il mondo s'allarga né la vita s'allunga per ciò; e chi pensa troppo, correrà sempre fuori di quei limiti nell'infinito, nel mistero senza luce.

Women, our superiors! Yes, my brothers: accept this strange judgement from the mouth of one who has known many of them. They

After all, people judge one another according to their own feelings. It is only the miser who sees other enticed by money, the lustful who see others obsessed by desire.

What separates or unites people is not their language, their laws, their customs, their principles, but the way they hold their knife and fork.