“There are three aspects to perspective. The first has to do with how the size of objects seems to diminish according to distance: the second, the manner in which colors change the farther away they are from the eye; the third defines how objects ought to be finished less carefully the farther away they are.” FirstsSeemsEyeThreeObjectsColorPerspectiveOughtAspectThirdsDistanceSizeFinishedDiminish Book:Leonardo da Vinci's advice to artists Source: Leonardo da Vinci's advice to artists
“One of the objects of a newspaper is to understand popular feeling and to give expression to it; another is to arouse among the people certain desirable sentiments; and the third is fearlessly to expose popular defects.” PeopleGivingFeelingsCertainObjectsExpressionThirdsNewspapersSentimentsDefectsDesirable Book:Gandhi: 'Hind Swaraj' and Other Writings Source: Gandhi: 'Hind Swaraj' and Other Writings
“Man never ceases to seek knowledge about the objects of his experiences, to understand their meaning for his existence and to react to them according to his understanding. Finally, out of the sum total of the meanings that he has deduced from his contacts with numerous single objects of his environment there grows a unified view of the world into which he finds himself "thrown" (to use an existentialist term again) and this view is of the third order.” MenWorldUseOrderGrowsUnderstandingTermViewsExistenceEnvironmentAtheismObjectsThirdsPositive AtheismCeaseContactThrownUnifiedExistentialist Author:Paul Watzlawick
“Used with due abstinence, hope acts as a healthful tonic; intemperately indulged, as an enervating opiate. The visions of future triumph, which at first animate exertion, if dwelt upon too intently, will usurp the place of the stern reality; and, noble objects will be contemplated, not for their own inherent worth, but on account of the day-dreams they engender. Thus hope, aided by imagination, makes one man a hero, another a somnambulist, and a third a lunatic; while it renders them all enthusiasts.” IfsMenFirstsDreamRealityUsedHopeImaginationVisionObjectsHeroThirdsAccountsDuesNobleTriumphOne ManInherentLunaticExertionAbstinenceOpiates Author:James Fitzjames Stephen
“We must recognize that only scarce resources are ownable; second, that the body is a type of scarce resource; third, that the mode of acquiring title to external objects is different from the basis of ownership of one's own body.” DifferentBodyObjectsTypeResourcesThirdsBasesTitlesOwnershipScarceScarce Resources Author:Stephan Kinsella
“There are three bombs. The first one is the atomic bomb, which disintegrates reality, the second one is the digital or computer bomb, which destroys the principle of reality itself - not the actual object - and rebuilds it, and finally the third bomb is the demographic one. Some experts have found out that in five thousand years from now, the weight of the population will be heavier than the weight of the planet. That means that humanity will constitute a planet of its own!” YearsFirstsMeanRealityHumanityThreeFoundPrinciplesFiveObjectsPlanetsThousandComputerThirdsWeightPopulationExpertsBombsDigitalThousand YearsDemographicsAtomic Bomb Author:Paul Virilio