Quotes of: View Keyword

There’s an alternate view. That no man or woman alive is the disempowered victim of another’s degrading circumstance. Each is equipped to pursue their own fate. No one needs saving.

Stormed Fortress

When you can flatten entire cities at a whim, a tendency towards quiet reflection and seeing-things-from-the-other-fellow's-point- of-view is seldom necessary.

Small Gods

Man has always seen himself the peak of creation. The part of the universe that thinks. The purpose for it all. It's no doubt a gratifying view, but the universe may have a different opinion.

Seeker

We are the windows through which our children first see the world. Let us be conscious of the view.

Mitten Strings for God: Reflections for Mothers in a Hurry

Turnstall's view of what men could and couldn't do was sometimes odd. Our old parter Goodwin and I agreed that there was no manly or unwomanly, only what you chose to do.

Mastiff

There is nothing I detest so much as the contortions of these great time-and-lip servers, these affable dispensers of meaningless embraces, these obliging utterers of empty words, who view every one in civilities

The Misanthrope

I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape.

The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal

The essence in obedience consists in the fact that a person comes to view himself as an instrument for carrying out another person's wishes and he therefore no longer regards himself as responsible for his actions.

Obedience to Authority

Democracy should always be viewed with a philosophical perspective rather than a political one, because after all democracy was born to a philosopher and murdered by a politician.

The Opposite of Indifference: A Collection of Commentaries

The city of San Francisco engulfed their view through the front windshield. The dazzling light of the late morning sun transformed every glass and metal surface into a silvery mirage.

Luisa Across the Bay

Mine is the only view that appropriately combines the end-time messianic expectations of the Jews with Christian scripture.

The Little Book of Revelation: The First Coming of Jesus at the End of Days

No two people ever view the world from exactly the same perspective, understand things the same way, human or not. The best we can ever do is try.

MILA 2.0

At home they thought of white people as a vague but powerful entity--like the forces that control the weather, that capable of destruction, that hidden from view.

The Twelve Tribes of Hattie

. . . crazy world or maybe it's just the view we have of it, looking through a crack in the door, never being able to see the whole room, the whole picture.

Ordinary People

Of course mothers and daughters with strong personalities might see the world from very different points of view.

The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane

Speech is not a means in the service of an external end. It contains its own rule of usage, ethics, and view of the world, as a gesture sometimes bears the whole truth about a man.

Phenomenology of Perception

This, in essence, is the problem with the scientific view of reality. Science is a kind of glorified tailoring enterprise, a method for taking measurements that describe something - reality - that may not be understood at all.

Travels

In my view, a Cyclops is halfway to being blind. Love sees all. When someone insults me and I go silent, I’m in Helen Keller mode. Listen!

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Once you stop being locked into viewing reality from just one perspective, you will start to be free from habitual reactivity.

The Ultimate Cosmic Ordering Meditation

, a brilliant scientist, happened to marry a still more brilliant one— , the famous —and is the only great scientist in history who is consistently identified as the husband of someone else.

View from a Height

After the series, other series have entered the domain of analysis; they entered by the same door; they have been imagined in view of applications.

The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare