Quotes About Perspective

These stark divides prompt a simple but fundamental question: why can't White Christian America understand how African Americans feel about the black men who have died at the hands of white police officers? To

If some of the things sound a little childish, figure it out: do you think they're too childish, or do you think that if someone else saw you doing it, he would think it was childish?

We are the prisoners of history. Or are we?

It is a human defect--to try to know one's self by the self of another.

For whatever you live is life.

When one supports a certain radical position, one should know the conservative position that one is rejecting. What troubles me is the unexamined adoption of a radical stance.

But someone I know is dying-- And though one might say glibly, "everyone is," The different pace makes the difference absolute.

Remember: if you can see the Empire State Building, The Empire State Building can see you.

Science,' said Mr Anders Anders. 'Science, not magic. I told you before: when things are not as they appear to be, it's because they're actually simpler than you think them to be. Things are never as difficult and complicated as folk believe. You'd be surprised just how straightforward and obvious things really are. The secret is in knowing how to look at them the right way.

What is believed to be a fact is only a fact until another fact supersedes it. Science is only a fashion. Nothing more.

Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made. I try to act in that gap between the two. - 1959, from a catalogue

I really feel sorry for people who think things like soap dishes or mirrors or Coke bottles are ugly, because they're surrounded by things like that all day long, and it must make them miserable.

A pair of stockings is no less suitable o make a painting of than wood,nails,turpentine,oil,and fabric.

When you go off in the world and make your life, and you come back to your home town, and you find your old high-school friends driving in the same circles, doing the same things, that's what Hollywood's like. It's a little block, little town. It doesn't really grow or change.

I question not my Corporeal or Vegetative Eye any more than I would question a Window concerning a Sight. I look thru' it not with it.

Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.

Though we may not be so extreme, many of us do have certain Christian activities (church attendance, tithing, Bible studies, and so on) that we feel we must do to be good Christians. These activities themselves are obviously not wrong, but a performance-oriented perspective is wrong.

I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when I grew up; instead, I had always assumed I would become a mountain gorilla.

Remember, there are more people in the world than yourself. Be modest! You have not yet invented nor thought anything which others have not thought or invented before. And should you really have done so, consider it a gift of heaven which you are to share with others.

It is the absence of something that best teaches its value and meaning.

If all you have is a hammer, everything seems to be a nail.

What is reality?" - "One of the many possible illusions.

I have simply given up a longevity which I never possessed anyhow. I have turned away from the con game which the gods run in their heavenly side-show. I no longer care under which shell the pea of immortality might be found. I don't need it. I have my moment which is quite enough.

I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore.