2,489 Quotes About Views

  • Author Tahar Ben Jelloun
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    The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women.

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  • Author Tommy Lee Jones
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    Cormac McCarthy's language is perfect. He is in my view the greatest living American prose stylist.

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  • Author William James
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    As we take, in fact, a general view of the wonderful stream of our consciousness, what strikes us first is this different pace of its parts. Like a bird 's life, it seems to be made of an alternation of flights and perchings.

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  • Author William James
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    From a pragmatic point of view, the difference between living against a background of foreigness (an indifferent Universe) and one of intimacy (a benevolent Universe) means the difference between a general habit of wariness and one of trust.

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  • Author William F. Buckley, Jr.
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    Though liberals do a great deal of talking about hearing other points of view, it sometimes shocks them to learn that there are other points of view.

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  • Author William James
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    In this real world of sweat and dirt, it seems to me that when a view of things is 'noble,' that ought to count as presumption against its truth, and as a philosophic disqualification. The prince of darkness may be a gentleman, as we are told he is, but whatever the God of earth and heaven is, he can surely be no gentleman.

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  • Author William James
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    As the brain changes are continuous, so do all these consciousnesses melt into each other like dissolving views. Properly they are but one protracted consciousness, one unbroken stream.

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