Quotes About Perspective

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.

The real marriage of true minds is for any two people to possess a sense of humor or irony pitched in exactly the same key, so that their joint glances on any subject cross like interarching searchlights.

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

History is a novel that has been lived, a novel is history that could have been.

We have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." [Preface to Brissot's Address to His Constituents (1794)]

Self-pity, a destroyer of perspective.

He who expects little is rarely disappointed.

It was like giving a glass of brandy neat to someone who had never been weaned from a milk diet.

I seek not to instruct but only to lead, to point out and describe what I see. I claim no other right than that of speaking according to my best lights, principally before myself but in the same manner also before others, as one who has lived in all its seriousness the fate of a philosophical existence.

If somebody doesn't like you, there's nothing you can do to make that person like you.

Why then should witless man so much misweene That nothing is but that which he hath seene?

one louing howre For many yeares of sorrow can dispence: A dram of sweet is worth a pound of sowre

When we are young... we often experience things in the present with a nostalgia-in-advance, but we seldom guess what we will truly prize years from now.

At every moment I convinced myself that I was gathering material for the novel of my life - all experienced from the philosophical distance of the author. Even these humiliating occasions when I was robbed could be used as material. Life was a field trip.

Just think of dick as pussy on a stick.

Americans consider the sidewalk an anonymous backstage space, whereas for the French it is the stage itself.

The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.

No hay dos personas que lean el mismo libro.

No two persons ever read the same book

No two person, ever read the same book.

No two persons ever read the same book".

No two persons ever read the same book. -Edmund Wilson