Common Perspective Quotes

When your opinions start to coincide with those of the majority, it is time to reconsider your opinions.

He knew one of the women well, and had shared his universe with her. They had seen the same mountains, and the same trees, although each of them had seem them differently. She knew his weaknesses, his moments of hatred, of despair. Yet she was there at his side. They shared the same universe.

Our vulgar perception is not concerned with other than vulgar phenomena.

Social opinion is like a sharp knife. There are foolish people who regard it only with terror, and dare not touch or meddle with it. There are more foolish people, who, in rashness or defiance, seize it by the blade, and get cut and mangled for their pains. And there are wise people, who grasp it discreetly and boldly by the handle, and use it to carve out their own purposes.

I think frankly a lot of people agree with what I'm saying.

Bader's philosophy was my philosophy. His whole attitude to life was mine.

We're seeing it the same way, we're hearing the same way, we have the same conception of the situation. And so, for all purposes, we are operating with a very similar perception.

I learned have, not to despise,What ever thing seemes small in common eyes.

And that which yesterday was the novel opinion of one man, to-day becomes the general opinion of the majority.

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

The thing that binds us together is that we have both lowered our expectations of life