Perspective Quotes
The professor counsels against retrospective history, assuming that particular pieces contributed to an outcome.
The aesthetic is an individual rather than a societal concern.
When critics surrender to the prevailing orthodoxy, the author says they adopt the rhetoric of an occupied country, "one that expects no liberation from liberation.
It was easier to come to maturity when there were more well-defined philosophical options.
In proportion that property is small, the danger of misusing the franchisee is great.
Our misconception in viewing the past lies in assuming that doubt and fear, permit, protests, violence and hate were not equally present.
Any journalist who holds the office writes in a straitjacket.
We live our entire lives thinking we know those closest to us. But do we ever really?
One English nobleman and statesman read and reread a particular work of literature because it was "the only book which allowed him to forget politics.
The letter is too belligerent. If I were you, I would state the facts as they were, without the pepper and salt. Abraham Lincoln
As a writer, my job is to change your perspective, and make you think outside the box.
Milk is very nice, especially with a drop of brandy in it, but the domestic cow is only too glad to be rid of it. A swollen udder is very uncomfortable
If you spend your life over analysing every encounter you will always see the tree, but never the forest.
She seemed always to have seen him through a blur - first of sleepiness, then of distance and indifference - and now the fog had thickened till he was almost indistinguishable.
Slavery received, but the prejudice to which it has given birth remains stationary.
We still thought that we were the only two people in the world who were interested in the right kind of things in the right kind of way. C.S. Lewis
The author observes of the Inklings, "they make a perfect compass rose of faith: talking the Catholic, Lewis the "mere Christian, " Williams the Anglican, Barfield the esotericist.
Barfield understood his epochal experience are not as a rebound from love sickness, but as a spiritual epiphany that cured a spiritual illness.
Surely, if there could be regrets in heaven, the saints might mourn that they did not live longer here to do more good.
Lewis was studying literary history with the present and future in mind.
Recovery is the ability to see things with clarity, "freed from the drab blur of greatness or familiarity – from possessiveness.
Kindness and pain, joy and suffering are twins in this fallen world.
The net that catches me when I confront traumatic events is that 10, 000 years from now, they will be a reason for rejoicing.
Institutions and cultures are not immortal. Humans, Christian and non-Christian, are. Compared to us, our country is a gnat.
Lewis at his best is about trying on ways of looking at the world.
If you had to jump six or seven feet or certainly drown, it's surprising how far even older people will jump.
When we encounter personal problems, those things most deeply personal are the most difficult to bring out for our logic to scan.
When strangers meet, great allowances should be made for differences in custom and training.
With all foreign travel, you learn as much about where you're from as what you're visiting.
There is no hatred as corrupting as intellectual hatred.
All the courtesies in the world do not cover up the one vital and massive discourtesy.
Who can be astonished at anything, when he has once been astonished at the manger and the cross? What is there wonderful left after one has seen the Saviour?
He did something he rarely did. He decided not to see things from the other guy's point of view.
We need to forgive the adolescent versions of ourselves, if only because we need the practice to forgive those who are maturing awkwardly in our lives.
Perhaps wherever you go first is what you judge everything else by.
Americans have a tendency to take much of our long-term economic, technological, medical, and social progress for granted, while assuming problems will only get worse. This is unwarranted.
I couldn't have done 16 months of deployment without a sense of irony. N
The Luddite impulse is strong among Christians, and our first reaction is to rage against the machine.
Was it an accident... or is it just that the world unwraps itself to you again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew?
There is nothing quite like a dose of unvarnished history for inoculating people against the tendency to indict the present for failing to measure up to a sentimental notion of the past.
Ambition distorts even memory itself. John Quincy Adams
He hasn’t really seen you, not as you want to be seen, but he’s starting to, a little.
Enormity of the stakes became the new self-hypnosis.
We need more portrayals of women as competent professionals and happy mothers - or even happy professionals and competent mothers.
There is no perfect fit when you're looking for the next big thing to do. You have to take opportunities and make an opportunity fit for you, rather than the other way around.
He said that when you want to change things, you can't please everyone. If you do please everyone, you aren't making enough progress. Mark was right.