Quotes About Perspective

Lillian was reminded of the Talmudic words: We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are.

We don't see things how they are, we see things the way we are.

Djuna concerned only with the longitude, and latitude and altitude of human beings in relation to each other.

I have decided that if analysis is a hothouse, a hastening of wisdom and growth, nevertheless the life experience must be actually lived out and through, completely, in spite of it; everything that is lived out in the imagination is poison.

You can only see in others what your nature allows you to see. The range of your vision depends on the extent of the personal development. The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic; I never generalize, intellectualize. I see, I hear, I feel. These are my primitive instruments of discovery.

La alegría de las cosas pequeñas es todo cuanto tenemos para combatir lo trágico de la vida.

But I also hate Nietzsche. I wish you would tell me something that would make me understand him. I began with Zarathustra—fatuous language, and the world full of "tougher and merrier" men!

Fools compare... the wise enjoy.

Why go to Tahiti or Bali? Only sad, defeated people do that.

What I corrupted is what is called the truth in favour of a more marvellous world.

Viajamos en direcciones opuestas. Observo todo esto en tono trágico.

The root of all dissention between friends is the quality of idealism contained in it.

Then the anger about blaming society for the situation in which we find ourselves — blaming, say, man for the situation in which woman finds herself. I don't believe in that because I believe very much our double responsibility, that we engage ourselves in destructive relationships, that we have a part of the responsibility, unconsciously.

No vemos las cosas como son, las vemos como somos

To say that the artist is not serving humanity is monstrous. He has been the eyes, the ears, the voice of humanity. He was always the transcendentalist who x-rayed our true states of being. His role in European culture is clear enough. Here he is given an inferior status, because he is not obviously and directly useful. His usefulness cannot be measured. The artist cannot serve directly.

Cuando te embriaga un sentimiento, no importa cuál sea (ella está ahora ebria de un sentimiento imaginado), dejas de ver la realidad o la fealdad.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

When I look at the large green iron gate from my window it takes on the air of a prison gate. An unjust feeling, since I know I can leave the place whenever I want to, and since I know that human beings place upon an object, or a person, this responsibility of being the obstacle when the obstacle lies always within one's self.

Wir sehen die Dinge nicht, wie sie sind. Wie sehen sie, wie wir sind.

At bottom I hate all this pampering we give each other, the moment we learn that another is ill. Why shouldn't one enjoy his illness too? One gets ill sometimes just to be alone for a while. It's a way the body has of conquering the mind.

Noi non vediamo le cose come sono; le vediamo come siamo noi.

No es de extrañar que yo observe su vida y me dé cuenta de que la mía nunca se parecerá a la de él, porque la mía la retiene el pensamiento.

It doesn't matter whether one is for or against—the writing it is all that counts.

My mother won't live any longer in the house of a person capable of writing such a "dirty" book as my study of Lawrence.