Echoes

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

It is not truth that makes man great, but man that makes truth great.

My experience is what I agree to attend to.

People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.

Men are disturbed, not by things, but by the principles and notions which they form concerning things.

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven.

It is not things that disturb us, but our judgments about things. For example, death is nothing terrible, for if it were, it would have appeared so to Socrates; but the judgment that death is terrible — that is the terrible thing.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Example is the best lesson there is.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.

The order and connection of ideas is the same as the order and connection of things.

Learn about pines from the pine, and about bamboo from the bamboo.

Anyone who holds a true opinion without understanding is like a blind man on the right road.

Man is what he believes.

Against that positivism which stops before phenomena, saying "there are only facts," I should say: no, it is precisely facts that do not exist, only interpretations...

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Man knows much more than he understands.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

The present of things past is memory; the present of things present is sight; and the present of things future is expectation.