Quotes About Perspective

That which I think only according to the standard of my individuality is not binding on another; it can be conceived otherwise; it is an accidental, merely subjective view.

Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.

Wherefore, fond wretch, dost thou grieve thus, for what is now a hideous mass of mortality — mere bones, and nerves, and veins? Nations have fallen unlamented; even worlds themselves, long ere this globe of ours was created, have mouldered into nothing; nor hath any one wept over them; why then should'st thou indulge this vain affliction for a child of the dust — a being as frail as thyself, and like thee the creature but of a moment?

I love a tree more than a man.

Since nobody is in a position to substitute his own value judgments for those of the acting individual, it is vain to pass judgment on other people's aims and volitions. No man is qualified to declare what would make another man happier or less discontented.

It is common with narrow-minded people to reflect upon every respect in which other people differ from themselves. The

O valor não é intrínseco. Não está nas coisas e nas condições, mas no sujeito que as avalia.

Why do they all loathe capitalism? Why do they, while en-joying the well-being capitalism bestows upon them, cast long-ing glances upon the "good old days" of the past and the miser-able conditions of the present-day Russian worker?

Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.

Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.

A new word is like a fresh seed sewn on the ground of the discussion.

For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.

What is your aim in philosophy?---To shew the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.

I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that's a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fellow isn't insane. We are only doing philosophy.

Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.

Darkness, you know, is relative.

every now and then, i worry about people in the third world countries. and then i figure if they all started having sex, their lives would be considerably brighter.

Her hair is longer now, and fine lines bracket her mouth, parentheses around a lifetime of words I was not around to hear.

The Lord turned water into wine. All I'm suggesting is a trip to the grocery store.

DO you think it hurts to die? Not as much as it hurts to live, Trixie thought.

when you're a point, all you see is the point. When you're a line, all you see is the line and the point. When you're in three dimensions, you see three dimensions and lines and points. Just because we can't see a fourth dimensions doesn't mean it doesn't exist. It just me ands we haven't reached it yet.

We don't know what reality is," Rayanne says. "We just pretend we do, because it makes us feel like we're in control.