Juana Ines de la Cruz Quotes

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Beauty, my dear Sir, is not so much a quality of the object beheld, as an effect in him who beholds it. If our sight were longer or shorter, or if our constitution were different, what now appears beautiful to us would seem misshapen, and what we now think misshapen we should regard as beautiful. The most beautiful hand seen through the microscope will appear horrible. Some things are beautiful at a distance, but ugly near;

The beauty about history is that it's open to perception.

Necessity is not a fact; it's an interpretation.

From where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it.

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

What is nonsense, and what is not, then, may be merely a matter of perspective.

Perception is a prism, and reality is like shot silk - depends where the light hits.

There are no great people. There are only great topics.

I love that perhaps we don't see the things that are there because we have no yardstick to see things by, to compare them.

'Darkness' is a subjective word; it depends what your viewpoint is and how you live life.

There are always two or three or four sides to every story.

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

One man's constant is another man's variable.

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

Two things are as big as the man who possesses them - neither bigger nor smaller. One is a minute, the other a dollar.

Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.

I don't think you really can send an exact message, because any two viewers are so disparate, in terms of their backgrounds, their point of view, their histories, that there's no telling what that message might be.

Every question is a hypothetical question for everyone but the person who asks it.

No two people see things the same way.

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.

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

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

A weapon is either offensive or defensive according to which end of it you are looking at.

The knowable world is incomplete if seen from any one point of view, incoherent if seen from all points of view at once, and empty if seen from nowhere in particular.