Quotes about Perspective

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

Science must constantly be reminded that her purposes are not the only purposes and that the order of uniform causation which she has use for, and is therefore right in postulating, may be enveloped in a wider order, on which she has no claim at all.

There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.

He who complains, sins.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: wlien the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

A successful man is he who receives a great deal from his fellow men, usually incomparably more than corresponds to his service to them. The value of a man, however, should be seen in what he gives, and not in what he is able to receive.

The really happy man is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.

Every sweet hath its sour, every evil its good.

The Eiffel Tower is the Empire State Building after taxes.

Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

All of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

Very strange is this quality of our human nature which decrees that unless we feel a future before us we do not live completely in the present.