A day of hunger is not starvation.

Bad is called good when worse happens.

Bias and impartiality is in the eye of the beholder.

In England, I’m a horror movie director. In Germany, I’m a filmmaker. In the US, I’m a bum.

When you’re in the muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see the muck but you see it from a different perspective. And you see other things too. That’s the consolation of philosophy.

The seeing of objects involves many sources of information beyond those meeting the eye when we look at an object. It generally involves knowledge of the object derived from previous experience, and this experience is not limited to vision but may include the other senses: touch, taste, smell, hearing, and perhaps also temperature or pain.

Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.

Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.