Quotes About Perspective

Alcuni amministrano il mondo, altri sono il mondo.

La vida es lo que hacemos de ella. Los viajes son los viajeros. Lo que vemos no es lo que vemos sino lo que somos.

Caesar aptly defined what ambition is all about when he said: 'Better to be first in the village than the second in Rome!' I'm nothing in the village and nothing in any Rome. The corner grocer is at least respected from the Rua da Assunção to the Rua da Vitória; he's the Caesar of a square city block. Me superior to him? In what, if nothingness admits neither superiority nor inferiority, nor even comparison?

Porque eu sou do tamanho do que vejo. E não do tamanho da minha altura...

No one understands anyone else.

Life is what we do with it. Trips are travelers. What we see is not what we see, but what we are.

How many things that we consider right or true are merely the vestiges of our dreams, the sleepwalking figures of our incomprehension! Does anyone know what's right or true? How many things we consider beautiful are merely the fashion of the day, the fiction of their time and place! How many things we consider ours are utterly foreign to our blood, we being merely their perfect mirrors or transparent wrappers!

Since life is essentially a mental state and everything that we do or think is only as valuable as we think it is, it depends on us for any value it may have.

Wise is the man who has the potential for height in his muscles but who renounces climbing in his consciousness. By virtue of his gaze, he has all hills, and by virtue of his position, all valleys. The sun that gilds the summits will gild them more for him than for someone at the top who must endure the bright light; and the palace perched high in the woods will be more beautiful for those who see it from the valley than for those who, imprisoned in its rooms, forget it. I

A vida, para a maioria dos homens, é uma maçada passada sem se dar por isso, uma coisa triste composta de intervalos alegres, (...) Achei sempre fútil considerar a vida como um vale de lágrimas: é um vale de lágrimas, sim, mas onde raras vezes se chora. Disse Heine que, depois das grandes tragédias, acabamos sempre por nos assoar.

there's novelty and there's the boredom of the eternally new, and the latter brings about the death of the former.

Quem sabe se eu estarei morto depois de amanhã? Se eu estiver morto depois de amanhã, a trovoada de depois de amanhã Será outra trovoada do que seria se eu não tivesse morrido. Bem sei que a trovoada não cai da minha vista, Mas se eu não estiver no mundo. O mundo será diferente. Haverá eu a menos. E a trovoada cairá num mundo diferente e não será a mesma trovoada

The essence of pleasure lies in splitting yourself into more than one person.

Considerar nuestra angustia más profunda como un incidente sin importancia, no sólo en la vida del universo, sino en la de nuestra propia alma, es el principio de la sabiduría.

What we see isn't what we see but what we are.

A glória de um poente belo, com a sua beleza entristece-me . Ante ele eu digo sempre: como quem é feliz se deve sentir contente ao ver isto!

Through rational thought I can recognize that a man is a living being just like me, but for my true, involuntary self he has always had less importance than a tree, if the tree is more beautiful.

I find it so irritating, the happiness of all those men unaware of their unhappiness.

A cada quien su alcohol. Existir me procura bastante alcohol.

Everyone has his alcohol. To exist is alcohol enough for me.

The most contemptible thing about dreams is that everyone has them.

The true landscapes are those that we ourselves create since, being their gods, we see them as they truly are, which is however we created them.

Other people are no more for us than scenery, generally the invisible scenery of a street we know by heart.

Some days are like whole philosophies in themselves that suggest to us new interpretations of life, marginal notes full of the acutest criticism in the book of our universal destiny.