Quotes About Perspective

Other people can't make you see with their eyes. At the best they can only encourage you to use your own.

If you're a human being, you'll be seeing something of both, because we've always wanted things both ways.

Porque es antiguo; ésta es la razón principal. Aquí las cosas antiguas no nos son útiles. —¿Aunque sean bellas? —Especialmente cuando son bellas. La belleza ejerce una atracción, y nosotros no queremos que la gente se sienta atraída por cosas antiguas. Queremos que les gusten las nuevas.

New ideas are reasonable if they can be fitted into an already familiar scheme, unreasonable if they cannot be made to fit. Our intellectual prejudices determine the channels along which our reason shall flow.

Heaven is merely a vantage point from which the divine Ground can be more clearly seen than on the level of ordinary individualized existence.

Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations of misery.

To understand sympathetically, with one's whole beings, the state of mind of some one radically unlike oneself is very difficult—is, so far as I am concerned, impossible.

One must have some basis of experience on which to build an imagination.

Las palabras pueden ser como los rayos X si se emplean adecuadamente: pasan a través de todo. Las lees y te traspasan. Ésta es una de las cosas que intento enseñar a mis alumnos: a escribir de manera penetrante.

Cómo puede el cuerdo saber lo que realmente se siente cuando se está loco?

Why will you young men continue to write about things that are so entirely uninteresting as the mentality of adolescents and artists?

La felicidad real siempre aparece escuálida en comparación con las compensaciones que ofrece la desdicha.

What the rest of us see only under the influence of mescalin, the artist is congenitally equipped to see all the time.

Confronted by a chair which looked like the Last Judgment—or, to be more accurate, by a Last Judgment which, after a long time and with considerable difficulty, I recognized as a chair—I found myself all at once on the brink of panic.

Bernard consideraba que el Golf Electromagnético era una pérdida de tiempo. —Pues, ¿para qué es el tiempo, si no?

What fun it would be,' he thought, 'if one didn't have to think about happiness!

Lordul Edward È™i fratele s?u luau aer în parcul Gattenden. Lordul Edward lua aer plimbîndu-se. Al cincilea marchiz lua aer într-un fotoliu pe rotile, tras de un m?gar mare, cenuÈ™iu. Marchizul era infirm. "Asta nu împiedic?, din fericire, s?-mi umble mintea", îi pl?cea lui s? spun?. Mintea îi umblase haotic, de colo-colo, toat? viaÈ›a. M?garul cenuÈ™iu mergea încet, foarte încet.

Happiness is a hard master- particularly other people's happiness. A much harder master, if one isn't conditioned to accept it unquestioningly, than truth.

There's so much one doesn't know; it wasn't my business to know. I mean, when a child asks you how a helicopter works or who made the world–well, what are you to answer if you're a Beta and have always worked in the Fertilizing Room? What are you to answer?

There seems to be plenty of it," was all I would answer, when the investigator asked me to say what I felt about time.

American Notes

La actual felicidad siempre parece muy menguada en comparación de las compensaciones que brinda la miseria. (...) La felicidad nunca es grandiosa.

to shift the emphasis from

Las palabras pueden ser como los rayos X, si se emplean adecuadamente: pasan a través de todo.