Quotes About Perspective

I'm angry. I just don't give in to it." He sipped his tea and then put it down. "Stuff happens all the time. What'd you call it? Outrageous. Outrageous stuff make you so mad you can just burn yourself up with it. You got to decide if the mad runs you, or you run the mad.

Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.

The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth.

Never attempt to reason with people who know they are right!

Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?

We have eternity, beloved. You may have eternity. I have only now. But this is eternity.

The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door.

If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you.

How easy it was to mistake clear reasoning for correct reasoning!

My Uncle Malky always said the Lord Leto never responded to prayer. He said the Lord Leto looked on prayer as attempted coercion, a form of violence against the chosen god, telling the immortal what to do: Give me a miracle, God, or I won't believe in you!

It's very difficult convincing the young of anything. They're born knowing so much.

There are many degrees of sight and many degrees of blindness. What senses do we lack that we cannot see another world all around us?

In the view of infinity, any defined long-term is short-term.

I am not the river I am the net.

Paradox is a pointer telling you to look beyond it. If paradoxes bother you, that betrays your deep desire for absolutes. The relativist treats a paradox merely as interesting, perhaps amusing or even, dreadful thought, educational.

I have said: Blow out the lamp! Day is here! And you keep saying: Give me a lamp so I can find the day.

Life produces a different taste each time you take it.

Life isn't a problem to be solved. But a reality to be experienced.

My mind controls my reality.

You don't see much of any path unless you are Janus, looking simultaneously backward and forward.

Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know.

If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you. This is a common error. Even I, your teacher, have made it.

Time can also be a place, Moneo, Leto said. Everything depends upon where you are standing, on where you look or what you hear. The measure of it is found in consciousness itself.

This is the perspective which you create with your own belief, and beliefs can be manipulated by imagination. You've learned only a limited way of looking at the universe. Now you must make the universe your own creation.