Echoes

There are no facts, only interpretations.

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

My experience is what I agree to attend to.

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

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

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

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

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...

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.

Every faculty in one man is the measure by which he judges of the like faculty in another. I judge of your sight by my sight, of your ear by my ear, of your reason by my reason, of your resentment by my resentment, of your love by my love. I neither have, nor can have, any other way of judging about them.

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

External things are not the problem. It's your assessment of them. Which you can erase right now.

A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

In a word, neither death, nor exile, nor pain, nor anything of this kind is the real cause of our doing or not doing any action, but our inward opinions and principles.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience.

Man is what he believes.

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.

A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is.