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“Never disregard what your enemies say. They may be severe, they may be prejudiced, they may be determined to see only in one direction, but still in that direction see clearly. They do not speak all the truth, but they generally speak the truth from one point of view; so far as that goes, attend to them.”

May Stills Speak Views Enemy Determined Point Of View Severe Speak The Truth Disregard One Direction

Author:Benjamin Haydon

“The Philosophy of Tea is not mere aestheticism ... for it expresses conjointly with ethics and religion our whole point of view about man and nature. It is hygiene, for it enforces cleanliness; it is economics, for it shows comfort in simplicity rather than in the complex and costly; it is moral geometry, inasmuch as it defines our sense of proportion to the universe.”

Men Philosophy Whole Shows Universe Views Moral Comfort Ethics Economics Mere Complexes Simplicity Point Of View Tea Proportion Geometry Cleanliness Hygiene Man And Nature

Book:The Illustrated Book of Tea

Source: The Illustrated Book of Tea

“To later Romans Ennius was the personification of the spirit of early Rome; by them he was called "The Father of Roman Poetry." We must remember how truly Greek he was in his point of view. He set the example for later Latin poetry by writing the first epic of Rome in Greek hexameter verses instead of in the old Saturnian verse. He made popular the doctrines of Euhemerus, and he was in general a champion of free thought and rationalism.”

Writing Firsts Made Remember Spirit Father Views Example Point Of View Doctrine Greek Champion Latin Rome Verses Epic Rationalism Free Thought Personification

Author:Quintus Ennius

“True hope is based on the energy of character. A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope, because it knows the mutability of human affairs, and how slight a circumstance may change the whole course of events. Such a spirit, too, rests upon itself; it is not confined to partial views or to one particular object. And if at last all should be lost, it has saved itself.”

“Where philosophy ends, poetry must commence. There should not be a common point of view, a natural manner of thinking which standsin contrast to art and liberal education, or mere living; that is, one should not conceive of a realm of crudeness beyond the boundaries of education. Every conscious link of an organism should not perceive its limits without a feeling for its unity in relation to the whole. For example, philosophy should not only be contrasted to non-philosophy, but also to poetry.”

“It is a thoughtless and immodest presumption to learn anything about art from philosophy. Some do begin as if they hoped to learnsomething new here, since philosophy cannot and should not do anything further than develop the given art experiences and the existing art concepts into a science, improve the views of art, and promote them with the help of a thoroughly scholarly art history, and produce that logical mood about these subjects too which unites absolute liberalism with absolute rigor.”

“I have expressed some ideas that point to the center; I have saluted the dawn in my way, from my point of view. He who knows the way should do the same, in his way, and from his point of view.”

Knows Way Should Ideas Views Point Of View My Way Dawn

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“If one writes or reads novels from the point of view of psychology, it is very inconsistent and petty to want to shy away from even the slowest and most detailed analysis of the most unnatural lusts, gruesome tortures, shocking infamy, and disgusting sensual or spiritual impotence.”

Ifs Want Writing Spiritual Views Novel Psychology Point Of View Lust Sensual Analysis Torture Shy Disgusting Shocking Petty Unnatural Inconsistent Impotence Infamy

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“Some read books only with a view to find fault, while others read only to be taught; the former are like venomous spiders, extracting a poisonous quality, where the latter, like the bees, sip out a sweet and profitable juice.”

Book Reading Views Quality Taught Sweet Faults Former Latter Bees Spiders Juice Profitable Poisonous Venomous

Author:Roger L'Estrange

“A scientist, an artist, a citizen is not like a child who needs papa methodology and mama rationality to give him security and direction, he can take care of himself, for he is the inventor not only of laws, theories, pictures, plays, forms of music, ways of dealing with his fellow man, institutions, but also entire world view, he is the inventor of entire forms of like.”

“Science is not sacrosanct. The mere fact that it exists, is admired, has results is not sufficient for making it a measure of excellence. Modern science arose from global objections against earlier views and rationalism itself, the idea that there are general rules and standards for conducting our affairs, affairs of knowledge included, arose from global objections to common sense.”

Ideas Facts Results Views Common Modern Standards Excellence Mere Affair Common Sense Sufficient Objections Modern Science Conducting Rationalism

Author:Paul Feyerabend

“Why, Sir, when I have anything to invent, I never trouble my head about it, as other men do; but presently turn over this Book, and there I have, at one view, all that Perseus , Montaigne , Seneca 's Tragedies , Horace , Juvenal , Claudian, Pliny , Plutarch 's lives , and the rest, have ever thought upon this subject: and so, in a trice, by leaving out a few words, or putting in others of my own, the business is done.”

Men Book Done Turns My Own Views Trouble Subjects Tragedy Leaving Few Words Perseus

Author:Theresa Villiers

“If the generous ideas of youth are too often over- clouded by the sordid views of after-life, that scarcely proves them to be false”

Ifs Ideas Views Youth Prove Generous Clouded

Book:The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

“My uncle was famous for his balanced point of view. At the time of which I am writing (when he was nearly seventy) it had become so balanced, that the act of balancing seemed rather automatic.One had only to offer him an opinion for him to balance it with a counter- opinion of exactly the same weight, as a grocer puts a pound weight against a pound of sugar.”

Writing Views Opinion Balance Offers Weight Point Of View Pounds Sugar Balanced Uncles Seventies Grocers

Author:Stephen Spender

“Art is not made only one way, art is a point of view? Rembrandt in our days would be Rembrandt again, because the work of the master is his self. But in order to be Rembrandt in ourdayshe would have used new ways that would give a new culture.”

Way Giving Art Made Self Would Be Used Order Culture Views Masters Art Is Point Of View One Way New Ways New Cultures

Author:Marianne von Werefkin

“There is no real elevation of mind in a contempt of little things; it is, on the contrary, from too narrow views that we consider those things of little importance which have in fact such extensive consequences.”

Mind Littles Real Facts Views Consequence Importance Contrary Little Things Contempt Trifles Elevation

Author:Francois Fenelon

“While I am in favor of the Government promptly enforcing the laws for the present, defending the forts and collecting the revenue,I am not in favor of a war policy with a view to the conquest of any of the slave States; except such as are needed to give us a good boundary. If Maryland attempts to go off, suppress her in order to save the Potomac and the District of Columbia. Cut a piece off of western Virginia and keep Missouri and all the Territories.”

“No officer should be required or permitted to take part in the management of political organizations, caucuses, conventions, or election campaigns. Their right to vote and to express their views on public questions, either orally or through the press, is not denied, provided it does not interfere with the discharge of their official duties. No assessment for political purposes on officers or subordinates should be allowed.”

“Views of women, on one side, as inwardly directed toward home and family and notions of men, on the other, as outwardly striving toward fame and fortune have resounded throughout literature and in the texts of history, biology, and psychology until they seem uncontestable. Such dichotomous views defy the complexities of individuals and stifle the potential for people to reveal different dimensions of themselves in various settings.”

“If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.”

People Ifs World Littles Important Jobs Artist Views Creativity Rich Honesty Figures Hero Needed Our World Entertaining Citizenship Rich People World View Important Jobs

Author:Vaclav Havel

“In my art and life, I really strive to reverse the old adage that what you see is what you get. If I can be Coyote and practice my sneak-up, I can engage the viewers from a distance with one image and lure them in for exposure to another layer, which changes the initial view into quite a different reality. After all, that is what ethnic culture is all about - or even an ongoing relationship. What you see on the surface is never the same again one you begin to plumb the depths.”

“The question isn't whether or not to censor artists who espouse misogynistic views. The question is whether or not we support them as listeners and consumers.”

Artist Views Support Consumers Censorship Listeners

Author:Dessa Darling

“I remember being very smart, which is a form of stupidity. I try not to remember it, but it occurs to me that I may have felt intellectual. I entertained views too noble or too bitter to be true. I must have done some soul-stretching of my mental neck.”

Trying May Soul Done Remember Form Felt Views Intellectual Smart Stupidity Noble Bitter Being True Necks Stretching Very Smart

Author:Corra May Harris

“The young should not think of themselves as immature and the elderly need not view themselves as feeble. Our minds control our bodies. Have no age, transcend both past and future, and enter into naka-ima-the "eternal present".”

Thinking Needs Should Mind Body Age Past Young Views Meditation Eternal Yoga Elderly Mind Control Immature

Author:H. E Davey

“Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point - a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.”

Moving Sides Change Views Willing Higher Point Of View Both Sides Willing To Change

Book:Magic of Conflict

Source: Magic of Conflict

“It is hard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because we are not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creating a new "pearl" as we are in being right.”

Hard Views Conflict Creating Point Of View Pearls

Author:Thomas Crum

“Sometimes you won't feel pleasant during a meditation session; it seems like an uphill run. But when you get to the top, the view is rather breathtaking.”

Feels Sometimes Seems Running Views Meditation Buddhism Pleasant Session Breathtaking

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The gloomy theology of the orthodox--the Calvinists--I do not, I cannot believe. Many of the notions--nay, most of the notions--which orthodox people have of the divinity of the Bible, I disbelieve. I am so nearly infidel in all my views, that too, in spite of my wishes, that none but the most liberal doctrines can command my assent.”

People Believe Religion Wish Views Bible Notion Theology Doctrine Command Spite Divinity Orthodox Gloomy Infidel My Wish

Author:Rutherford B. Hayes

“In Sumter and other counties [in South Carolina] the whites are resorting to intimidation and violence to prevent the colored people from organizing for the elections. The division there is still on the color line. Substantially all the whites are Democrats and all the colored people are Republicans. There is no political principle in dispute between them. The whites have the intelligence, the property, and the courage which make power. The negroes are for the most part ignorant, poor, and timid. My view is that the whites must be divided there before a better state of things will prevail.”

“Parents who want a fresh point of view on their furniture are advised to drop down on all fours and accompany the nine or ten month old on his rounds. It is probably many years since you last studied the underside of a dining room chair. The ten month old will study this marvel with as much concentration and reverence as a tourist in the Cathedral of Chartres.”

Source: The Magic Years: Understanding and Handling the Problems of Early Childhood

“In the theater the audience is generally riveted to a single angle of observation. The movie director, though, can rapidly shift from objective to subjective--and to any number of subjective points of view--and in so doing seem to pull the audience directly inside the frame of his picture, giving the spectator the sense of experiencing an action from the viewpoint of a participant. Identification of the viewer with the film character, then, can be much more intimate than the analogous situation in the theater.”

“'The Last Of Us,' to me, is just amazing storytelling, because everything's from the character point of view, which even movies don't really do successfully a lot of the time.”

Character Lasts Views Point Of View Storytelling

Author:Felicia Day

“In my view, the only recourse for a scientist concerned about the social consequences of his work is to remain involved with it to the end.”

Ends Social Views Responsibility Involved Consequence Concerned Scientist Social Responsibility Recourse

Author:Arthur William Galston

“When a man is born from above, the life of the Son of God is born in him, and he can either starve that life or nourish it. Prayer is the way the life of God is nourished. Our ordinary views of prayer are not found in the New Testament. We look upon prayer as a means of getting things for ourselves; the Bible's idea of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.”

Knows Men Way Looks May Mean Ideas Found Born Prayer Views Son Ordinary Look Up Testament Knowing God New Testament

Author:Oswald Chambers

“Evolution has ensured that our brains just aren't equipped to visualise 11 dimensions directly. However, from a purely mathematical point of view it's just as easy to think in 11 dimensions, as it is to think in three or four.”

Thinking Three Easy Views Brain Four Evolution Point Of View Mathematical Dimensions

Author:Stephen Hawking

“From the U.S. point of view, negotiations are, in effect, a way for Israel to continue its policies of systematically taking over whatever it wants in the West Bank, maintaining the brutal siege on Gaza, separating Gaza from the West Bank and, of course, occupying the Syrian Golan heights, all with full U.S. support.”

Way Want Courses Views Support Effects Policy West Israel Point Of View Height Brutal Negotiation Maintaining Gaza Separating Siege

Author:Noam Chomsky

“In reality, there are very few villains who view themselves as villains. They just have a certain agenda at a certain time.”

Reality Certain Views Agendas Villain

Author:Michael Jai White

“Avoid any semblance of pornography. It is dangerous and addictive. If you continue to view pornography, your spirit will become desensitized and your conscience will erode.”

Ifs Spirit Views Dangerous Conscience Pornography Semblance Erode

Author:Thomas S. Monson

“My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative revolution. I desire that no public monument or work of art or inscription or sermon or ritual service commemorating me shall suggest that I accepted the tenets peculiar to any established church or denomination nor take the form of a cross or any other instrument of torture or symbol of blood sacrifice.”

“Without a thorough and deeply rooted understanding of the biblical view of truth as revealed, objective, absolute, universal, eternally engaging, antithetical and exclusive, unified and systematic, and as an end in itself, the Christian response to postmodernism will be muted by the surrounding culture or will make illicit compromises with the truth-impoverished spirit of the age. The good news is that truth is still truth, that it provides a backbone for witness and ministry in postmodern times, and that God's truth will never fail.”

“All too often, legacy management practices reflexively perpetuate the past - by over-weighting the views of long-tenured executives, by valuing conformance more highly than creativity and by turning tired industry nostrums into sacred truths.”

Long Past Views Creativity Practice Industry Management Sacred Tired Legacy Executives

Author:Gary Hamel

“Obstacles are not opposing you, but merely and gently re-routing you. It is important not to view that which stands in your way as your 'enemy.' It can often be your best friend, sending you on a detour that takes you around what would have been your biggest stumbling block.”

Way Has Beens Important Views Enemy Obstacles Block Opposing Often Is Your Best Friend Stumbling Detours Be Your Best Stumbling Blocks

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“As far as party primaries are concerned, both Republican - and Democratic - Party primaries are dominated by the most zealous voters, whose views may not reflect the views of most members of their own respective parties, much less the views of those who are going to vote in the November general election.”

May Views Party Republican Members Concerned Vote Election Democratic Primaries Voters Democratic Party November Zealous General Elections

Author:Thomas Sowell

“It is not for nothing that Skaldin in one part of his book quotes Adam Smith: we have seen that both his views and the character of his arguments in many respects repeat the theses of that great ideologist of the progressive bourgeoisie.”

Book Character Views Argument Repeats Progressive Adam Bourgeoisie Thesis

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“Boris Nemtsov, left his mark on the history of Russia, in politics and public life. He worked on important positions in the difficult transition period for our country. He always openly and honestly stated his position, defended his point of view.”

Life Important Country Politics Left Difficult Views Position Periods Mark Point Of View Honestly Russia Our Country Transition Public Life

Author:Vladimir Putin

“This fact, that the opposite of sin is by no means virtue, has been overlooked. The latter is partly a pagan view, which is content with a merely human standard, and which for that very reason does not know what sin is, that all sin is before God. No, the opposite of sin is faith.”

Knows Humans Mean Doe Has Beens Reason Facts Sin Views Virtue Standards Opposites Latter Pagan Overlooked

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“Knowledge is not a series of self-consistent theories that converges toward an ideal view; it is rather an ever increasing ocean of mutually incompatible (and perhaps even incommensurable) alternatives, each single theory, each fairy tale, each myth that is part of the collection forcing the others into greater articulation and all of them contributing, via this process of competition, to the development of our consciousness.”

Source: Against method: outline of an anarchistic theory of knowledge

“The view that honesty is something, and even a virtue, belongs, it is true, to those private opinions which are forbidden in this age of public opinions.”

Age Views Opinion Virtue Honesty Forbidden Public Opinion

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Mechanic slaves With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers, shall Uplift us to the view.”

Views Slavery Slave Uplifting Mechanic Hammers Aprons

Book:Antony and Cleopatra

Source: Antony and Cleopatra

“Accepting the view that man was prior in the creation, some Scriptural writers say that as the woman was of the man, therefore, her position should be one of subjection. Grant it, then as the historical fact is reversed in our day, and the man is now of the woman, shall his place be one of subjection?”

Men Should Facts Views Accepting Creation Position He Man Historical Grants Subjection Historical Facts

Book:The Woman's Bible

Source: The Woman's Bible

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