Quotes About Perspective

Ve sólo Uno en todas las cosas; es el segundo el que te descarría

Books, he said—books. One reads so many, and one sees so few people and so little of the world. Great thick books about the universe and the mind and ethics. You've no idea how many there are. I must have read twenty or thirty tons of them in the last five years. Twenty tons of ratiocination. Weighted with that, one's pushed out into the world.

Alone among the animals, we suffer from the future perfect tense. Rover the Dog cannot imagine a future world of dogs in which all fleas will have been eliminated and doghood will finally have achieved its full glorious potential

Remember one cubic centimetre cures ten gloomy sentiments.

La población óptima es la que se parece a los icebergs: ocho novenas partes por debajo de la línea de flotación, y una novena parte por encima. —¿Y son felices los que se encuentran por debajo de la línea de flotación? —Más felices que los que se encuentran por encima de ella.

People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God. (p.207)

the same person is simultaneously a mass of atoms, a physiology, a mind, an object with a shape that can be painted, a cog in the economic machine, a voter, a lover etc'

La felicidad siempre aparece escuálida en comparación con las compensaciones que ofrece la desdicha. Y, naturalmente, la estabilidad no es, ni con mucho, tan espectacular como la inestabilidad.

The legs, for example, of that chair - how miraculous their tubularity, how supernatural their polished smoothness! I spent several minutes - or was it several centuries? - not merely gazing at those bamboo legs, but actually being them - or rather being myself in them; or, to be still more accurate (for I was not involved in the case, nor in a certain sense were they) being my Not-self in the Not-self which was the chair.

In the human fugue there are eighteen hundred million parts. The resultant noise means something perhaps to the statistician, nothing to the artist. It is only by considering one or two parts at a time that the artist can understand anything.

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

La población óptima -dijo Mustafá Monds- es la que se parece a los icebergs: ocho novenas partes por debajo de la línea de flotación, y una novena parte por encima. -¿Y son felices los que se encuentran por debajo de la línea de flotación? -Más felices que los que se encuentran por encima de ella.

Todos tendemos a exagerar el valor de lo que por casualidad nos pertenece.

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons, that's philosophy.

Man is a double being and can take, now the god's-eye view of things, now the brute's-eye view.

La felicidad es un patrón muy duro, especialmente la felicidad de los demás.

Uno cree las cosas porque ha sido condicionado para creerlas.... La gente cree en Dios porque ha sido condicionada para creer en Dios.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception

Szcz??liwo?? nigdy nie bywa wznios?a.

Para obtener la felicidad debimos renunciar a la verdad y a la belleza.

Forse la terra è l'inferno di un altro pianeta.

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.

History is bunk.

The legs, for example of that chair – how miraculous their tubularity, how supernatural their polished smoothness! I spent several minutes – or was it several centuries? – not merely gazing at those bamboo legs, but actually being them – or rather being myself in them; or, to be still more accurate (for 'I' was not involved in the case, nor in a certain sense were 'they') being my Not-self in the Not-self which was the chair.