Quotes About Perspective

Maturity means acknowledging that Romantic love might constitute only a narrow, and perhaps rather mean-minded, aspect of emotional life, one principally focused on a quest to find love rather than to give it; to be loved rather than to love. Children

One wants never to give up this crystalline perspective. One wants to keep counterpoising home with what one knows of alternative realities, as they exist in Tunis or Hyderabad. One wants never to forget that nothing here is normal, that the streets are different in Wiesbaden and Luoyang, and that this is just one of many possible worlds.

It should not be Illiers-Combray that we visit: a genuine homage to Proust would be to look at our world through his eyes, not to look at his world through our eyes.

We will cease to be so angry once we cease to be so hopeful.

On account of its scale and complexity, the world will always outstrip the capacity of any single body to ask fertile questions of it.

BOREDOM IS A new challenge and responsibility.

The field seems to require a painfully uncommon synthesis of imagination and realism.

Our sense of what is valuable will hence be radically distorted if we must perpetually condemn as tedious everything we lack, simply because we lack it.

A genuine homage to Proust would be to look at our world through his his eyes, not look at his world through our eyes.

La razón por la cual la vida puede tenerse por trivial, aunque en determinados momentos nos parezca tan hermosa, radica en que nos formamos ese juicio, por lo general, no a partir de la vida misma, sino a partir de las imágenes sin duda distintas que nada han preservado de la vida, y por consiguiente la juzgamos en términos desdeñosos.

The ultimate goal of the art lover should be to build a world where works of art have become a little less necessary.

??ng bao gi? ?? sá»± Ä'au kh? c?a mình tr?m tr?ng thêm b?i ý nghÄ© r?ng có Ä'i?u gì Ä'ó không bình th??ng khi c?m th?y Ä'au Ä'á»›n sâu s?c ??n v?y. N?u ta không th?y Ä'au thì má»›i là b?t bình th??ng.

we are collectively unsure of what the point of private wealth really

as we have seen, what

The epitome of empathy is said to be the capacity to look at the world through another's eyes. Though our glance on the planet is largely distorted by our crooked perspectives, we may nevertheless, with luck or agility, accede to a privileged glimpse of the view from another's shoes - and in the process claim to have been able, for a moment at least, to surmount our relativity.

We might do better, instead, to distance ourselves, both practically and emotionally, from those whom we consider to be our equals and yet who have grown richer than us.

for a time we are relieved of our preoccupations and placed in a wider context that stills the incessant complaints of our egos.

To recognize that our best chance of contentment lies in taking up the wisdom offered to us in coded form through our coughs, allergies, social gaffes, and emotional betrayals, and to avoid the ingratitude of those who blame the peas, the bores, the time, and the weather.

In any case, unless we learn how to appreciate what we have, there is no point striving for more.

Jarenlang kwam ik bij het boodschappen doen langs een huis dat weliswaar een van de lelijkste gebouwen was dat ik ooit heb gezien, maar me ook meer over architectuur heeft geleerd dan menig meesterwerk.

The reason why life may be judged to be trivial although at certain moments it seems to us so beautiful is that we form our judgement, ordinarily, not on the evidence of life itself but of those quite different images which preserve nothing of life—and therefore we judge it disparagingly.

There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.

It is the task of philosophy to let you down gently.

Children are always described from a third-person perspective ("Isn't Chloe a cute/ugly/intelligent/stupid kid?") before they gain the ability to influence their own definitions. Overcoming childhood could be understood as an attempt to correct the false stories of others. But the struggle against distortion continues beyond childhood.