Quotes About Perspective

Whoever writes in a foreign language must like a lover accommodate his mode of thinking to it. -- Whoever writes in his native language has the authority of a husband in his own house, if he is in command of it.

If you see the world through fragments, your empathy often doesn't kick in, in the way that it does when you engage with something in a sustained, focused way.

It's always tempting to mistake your personal decline for the decline of the human species

Twitter makes you feel that the whole world is obsessed with you and your little ego-- it loves you, it hates you, it's talking about you right now. The ocean makes you feel like the world is greeting you with a soft, wet, welcoming indifference. It's never going to argue back, no matter how loud you yell.

Jarod Lanier - a veteran Silicon Valley engineer - told me he used to be a consultant for loads of dystopian Hollywood movies, like Minority Report, but he had to stop because he kept designing ever-more frightening technologies to warn people of what was coming - and designers kept responding by saying that's so cool; how do we make that?

fiction is a kind of empathy gym,

I've made up my mind—don't confuse me with the facts.

There's a Buddhist saying—be grateful for your suffering, because it allows you to empathize with the suffering of others.

better techniques being discovered every week. One day, when we were walking in San Francisco, Tristan said to me: "Things look pretty bad from the outside, but when you're on the inside, things can look even worse." Tristan was starting to realize: It's not your fault you can't focus. It's by design. Your distraction is their fuel.

something the psychologist W. M. Mace said years ago, riffing on JFK: "Ask not what's inside your head,"9 he said. "Ask what your head's inside of.

Padecer depresión y ansiedad consiste en un proceso por el que te conviertes en prisionero de tu ego y no dejas que entre el aire del exterior.

Say not you know another entirely, till you have divided an inheritance with him.

Armut ist ohne Zweifel das Schrecklichste, mir dürft' einer 10 Millionen hinlegen und sagen, ich soll arm sein dafür, ich nehmet's nicht.

A man who does not know a foreign language is ignorant of his own.

One man's word is no man's word we should quietly hear both sides.

The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

Niemand weiß eine Medaille am Rand anzufassen

The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinions of its young men under five-and-twenty

Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake

Experience is only half of experience

The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Those who know nothing of foreign languages,knows nothing of their own.

I will not be as those who spend the day in complaining of headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it.