Quotes About Perspective

You don't need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary.

Can't you see two inches in front of your nose?

You don't have to consider everything true, you just have to consider it necessary. Lies are made into a universal system.

Manche leugnen den Jammer durch Hinweis auf die Sonne, er leugnet die Sonne durch Hinweis auf den Jammer.

Man mußte nur über irgendeine Sache glücklich sein, von ihr erfüllt sein, nach Hause kommen und es aussprechen und die Antwort war ein ironisches Seufzen, ein Kopfschütteln, ein Fingerklopfen auf den Tisch: »Hab auch schon etwas Schöneres gesehn« oder »Mir gesagt Deine Sorgen« oder »ich hab keinen so geruhten Kopf« oder »Kauf Dir was dafür!« oder »Auch ein Ereignis!«

When we write something, we have not coughed up the moon, whose origins might then be investigated. Rather, we have moved to the moon with everything we have. Nothing has changed; there, we are what we were here. A thousand differences are possible in the tempo of the voyage, none in the fact itself.

Man muß nicht alles für wahr halten, man muß es nur für notwendig halten.

On n'est pas obligé de croire vrai tout ce qu'il dit, il suffit qu'on le tienne pour nécessaire.

Ormanda yolunu yitirmiÅŸ çocuklar gibi terk edilmiÅŸlik içerisindeyiz. Önümde durup bana bakt???nda, ne sen benim içimdeki ac?lar? anlayabiliyorsun, ne de ben seninkileri. Ve senin önünde kendimi yere atsam, aÄŸlasam ve anlatsam bile, biri sana cehennemi s?cak ve korkunçtur diye anlatt???nda cehennem hakk?nda ne bilebilirsen, benim hakk?mda da ancak o kadar?n? bilebilirsin.

My grandfather used to say, Life is amazingly short. Now, looking back, it all appears so crowded together that I can hardly see how a young man could, for example, make up his mind to ride to the next village without fearing that, even without any special misfortunes, a normal, contentedly spent life might entirely run its course long before such a journey was complete.

Bir elman?n birbirinden farkl? görünümleri olabilir: Masan?n üstündeki elmay? bir an olsun görebilmek için boynunu uzatan çocuÄŸun görüÅŸü ve bir de, elmay? al?p yan?ndaki arkada??na rahatça veren evin efendisinin görüÅŸü.

Do not waste your time looking for an obstacle: maybe there is none.

Ciertamente, la libertad que hoy es posible es un arbusto raquítico. Pero, al fin y al cabo, es libertad que, al fin y al cabo, es un bien.

And so long as you say 'one' instead of 'I,' there's nothing in it and one can easily tell the story; but as soon as you admit to yourself that it is yourself you feel as though transfixed and horrified.

Oh dear, said the mouse, the world shrinks with every passing day. At first it was so vast I was afraid; I ran on further and was cheered when at last, in the distance, to the right and to the left, I saw walls; but these long walls converge on one another so quickly that I'm already in the final room, and there, in the corner, lies the trap into which I'm running. You just have to change direction, said the cat, and ate him.

Was ist Liebe? Das ist doch ganz einfach! Liebe ist alles, was unser Leben steigert, erweitert, bereichert. Nach allen Höhen und Tiefen. Die Liebe ist so unproblematisch wie ein Fahrzeug. Problematisch sind nur Lenker, die Fahrgäste und die Straße.

That is how things stand today, little likely to cause me any uneasiness.

Küçük ÅŸempanzeden büyük Akhillius'a kadar bu yeryüzünde gezip dolaÅŸan her yarat???n g?d?klan?r topuÄŸu.

Sight does not master the pictures, it is the pictures which master one's sight. They flood one's consciousness. The cinema involves putting the eye into uniform, where before it was naked.

Every time I see something about the Wild West, I'm reminded that our version of history may not be what really happened.

Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East.

Things aren't much wilder now, I don't think, than they were back then. Of course I just read about all the goings-on now. Ha.

These days I love watching Billy Wilder. I'm not saying the arthouse stuff is self-serious, but I needed to get out of my head a little bit and not treat films so seriously.

It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged.