2,489 Quotes About Views

Despair was so familiar to me; it could be banished by the sight of a beautiful mannikin in the window. It could be dispelled by the spectacle of lights surrounding a tower. It could be lifted by the great ghostly shape of St. Patrick's coming into view. And then despair would come again.

We mothers of grown-up daughters tend to view them with a mixture of love, exasperation, irritation and awe.

Evil is just a point of view

Many people have accused me of having a romantic view, whereas I personally I feel sorry for those who have lost romance in their lives.

Aquinas brought an Aristotelian view of reason back into European culture, and lighted the way toward the Renaissance.

Religion is a primitive form of philosophy, [the] attempt to offer a comprehensive view of reality.

But I simply can't stand a view limited to this earth, I feel life is so small unless it has windows into other worlds...I like mathematics largely because it is not human.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

The triumph of science has been mainly due to its practical utility, and there has been an attempt to divorce this aspect from that of theory, thus making science more and more a technique, and less and less a doctrine as to the nature of the world. The penetration of this point of view to philosophers is very recent.