Quotes About Perspective

When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense

Beware the writer who always encloses the word "reality" in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you.

We're all undesirable elements from somebody's point of view.

A pessimist is simply an optimist in full possession of the facts.

The very poor are materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.

Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies.

From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.

There is a way of being wrong which is also sometimes necessarily right.

We're all undesirable elements from somebody's point of view.

I'm sure as hell not going to fight over her. I got more interesting things to do than that. There's nothing more interesting than a woman, George. Not in this world.

I want to be able to look at and into a juniper tree, a piece of quartz, a vulture, a spider, and see it as it is in itself, devoid of all humanly ascribed qualities, anti-Kantian, even the categories of scientific description.

The romantic view, while not the whole of truth, is a necessary part of the whole truth.

I might also say, regarding reviews and reviewers, that I have yet to read a review of any of my own books which I could not have written much better myself.

I thought I was wrong once," Seldom said, "but I found out later I was mistaken.

Would you do it if you were me? If I was you I'd do whatever you would do.

Beware the writer who always encloses the word "reality" in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you.

It's only a story. None of it really happened. How could it? How could such people be? The prisoner is probably a professor. The sheriff loses the next election. The truck driver died of emphysema. And as for the cowboy, that character, why nobody even knows where he is anymore. Or even, to be honest, if he ever really was.

The world is older and bigger than we are. This is a hard truth for some folks to swallow.

La planète est plus grande que nous ne l'avons jamais imaginée. Le monde est plus froid, plus ancien, plus étrange et plus mystérieux que nous ne l'avons jamais rêvé. Et nous, misérables créatures humaines avec nos innombrables outils et jouets et peurs et espoirs ne sommes qu'une petite feuille sur le grand arbre efflorescent de la vie.

You just got here, sir." "I know but how do we get out?" "Same way you came in. It's a dead-end road." "So we see the same scenery twice?" "It looks better going out.

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.

The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own.

When you get old, you can't talk to people because people snap at you.... That's why you become deaf, so you won't be able to hear people talking to you that way.

If Attila the Hun were alive today, he'd be a drama critic.