Seneca the Younger Quotes

Maybe because she's smaller than me she might look taller.

Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison.

A dwarf on a giant's shoulder, sees further of the two.

You say I'm small? I certainly can relate, although it is a matter of perspective. The distance is deceptive, my friend, you standtoo low.

It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big.

There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.

Well, I don't know about the dizzy height, but I always thought they were going to be pretty big.

Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.

We're giants, and we're unaware of things that are too small for us to see.

Most actors are small, anyway - at least compared to me.

Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.

Everything around us is scale dependent. It's woven into the fabric of the universe.

What may appear as a towering peak to one may seem but an ordinary eminence to another.

MAGNITUDE, n. Size [that is] purely relative. If everything in the universe were increased 1,000 diameters nothing would be any larger than it was before, but if one thing remain unchanged all the others would be larger than they had been.

I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don't move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height.

Knowing what is big and what is small is more important than being able to solve partial differential equations.

Scale is very, very important, like the scale of a person is very important. It's to do with the size of our space, the fact they are big sculptures, they are still human scale.

The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective.

...there is no absolute scale of size in nature, and the small may be as important, or more so than the great.

I had seen the great, but I had not seen the small.

For I am the size of what I see / not my height's size.

A Dwarfe on a Gyants shoulder sees further of the two. [A dwarf on a giant's shoulder sees farther of the two.

Thumbelina what's the difference if you're very small? When your heart is full of love you're nine feet tall!

A dwarf can stand on a mountain, he's no taller.

The world is a big place," he said, "but so is the inside of an apartment!