Quotes About Perspective

Reading was for him a narrowing, not a widening experience He saw himself as a teacher and reformer born to change the world.

Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.

It's easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts.

The wonderful thing about age is that your knees don't work as well, you can't run down steps quite as easily and obviously you can't lift heavy weights. But your mind doesn't feel any different.

Male and Female Compatibility Rules: a. She's right. b. He's really thinking about nothing. Really.

made each other alert to the world's surprises, pleasant, foolish, and tragic.

A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is 'merely relative,' is asking you not to believe him. So don't. Deconstruction deconstructs itself, and disappears up its own behind, leaving only a disembodied smile and a faint smell of sulphur.

Leftwing people find it very hard to get on with rightwing people, because they believe that they are evil. Whereas I have no problem getting on with leftwing people, because I simply believe that they are mistaken.

Words do not reflect the world, not because there is no world, but because words are not mirrors.

I consider myself to have been the bridge between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching. Before I came along, the primary way to observe birds was to shoot them and stuff them.

I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of the best things that could happen to a kid if he's going to write poetry or songs.

No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words.

Estos temas ya estaban sobre la mesa en la Antigüedad griega y romana. La conversión hacia la filosofía no supone cambiar nuestros ojos por otros, sino cambiar la dirección de la mirada. Por naturaleza tendríamos en nuestra mente la capacidad de acceder a la verdad. Si nos extraviamos es porque no estamos buscando del lado correcto, es porque estamos mirando hacia otro punto. No se trata de introducir la verdad en el alma sino de volver el alma hacia la verdad.

I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.

Everyone underestimates their own life. Funny thing is, in the end, all our stories...they're the same. In fact, no matter where you go in the world, there is only one important story: of youth, loss and yearning for redemption. So we tell the same story, over and over. Only the details are different.

Distance was a dangerous thing, she knew. Distance changed people.

If there was an abundance of misery in the world, there was also sufficient joy, yes - as long as one knew where to look for it.

Lately you are brooding too much about rights. Give up this dangerous habit.

From the perspective of a narcissist, a person who claims to love them is a fraud, a liar, or blind.

The Text is not a definitive object.

The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.

Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.

language is never innocent.

I think I'm actually quite a materialistic person, I value what it takes to make a car or build a nice house. Money does change things, but how it changes people depends on how they react to it.