John Lubbock (1834-1913) was a very versatile individual – a banker being what we would call nowadays his ‘day job’, he wrote valuable books on archaeology, biology and ethnography. He helped to establish archaeology as a discipline and worked on an evolutional theory, which was similar to the one introduced by Darwin (Lubbock often discussed this matter with him).
I loved this quote as it shows that so much in our lives depends on our attitude:
How often do we all look at the same things and see different? I wish, this fact would only evoke peaceful debates, unfortunately, throughout history this was also a cause for more serious conflicts. The way we understand religion, freedom of speech, territorial issues and questions of a nationalism/patriotism – don’t we all see different things?
This post was written for Silver Threading‘s weekly challenge Writer’s Quote Wednesday.