Perspective · Skopia

Quotes

13

Consider, Sir, how insignificant this will appear a twelvemonth hence.

James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D · 1763

★ 4.6

Psychological literature

Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it.

Daniel Kahneman

Thinking, Fast and Slow · 2011

★ 4.5

Poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

Paradise Lost · 1667

★ 3.9

As she frequently remarked when she made any such mistake, it would be all the same a hundred years hence.

Charles Dickens

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby · 1838

★ 3.9

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Art

4

The Holy Trinity

1427★ 9.0

Gates of Paradise

Lorenzo Ghiberti

1452★ 8.6

Mystery and Melancholy of a Street

Giorgio de Chirico

1914★ 8.3

The Archduke Leopold Wilhelm in his Picture Gallery in Brussels

David Teniers the Younger

1647★ 5.9