Quotes About Perspective

Nada es negro donde luce el sol y el único sitio en que se ve negro es donde no brilla el sol. Lo que la gente de color necesitamos es ser ricos. No hay otra solución.

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.

In every direction, the walls of life are tiled with such facts so that you can never account for them all, only note some of the more conspicuous ones.

Yes, there are good reasons for revulsion and fear. But revulsion and fear impair judgment. Anxiety destroys scale, and suffering makes us lose perspective.

Do you believe in transcendence downward as well as upward?

She liked to give the example of Whistler the painter when he was taken to task by a woman who said, "I never see trees like that." He told her, "No, ma'am, but don't you wish you could?" This could be a variation on "Ye have eyes and see not," an aesthete's version of it.

As a man sees, so he is." The world as it appears to you classifies your mind.

It is so easy for outsiders to say that there are two sides to the question. What a terrible expression! I am beginning to detest

But this might have been construed to mean that what the Nazis had done to the Jews resembled what Zionism had done to the Arabs—a parallel no sane person would agree to.

Those who are most moral are farthest from the problem.

Some writers, notably Anton Chekov, argue that all characters must be admirable, because once we've looked at anyone deeply enough and understood their motivation we must identify with them rather than judge them.

Not all events are stories.

People make events into stories. Stories give events meaning.

Incerc sa le explic parintilor mei ca viata e un dar buclucas. La început ai tendinta sa-l supraestimezi crezand ca viata pe care ai primit-o este vesnica. Apoi, dimpotriva, il subestimezi, gasind ca-i o porcarie, scurta de nu-ntelegi nimic din ea si pe care uneori ti-ar veni s-o arunci de sa nu se vada. Abia catre sfarsit pricepi ca nu-i vorba de nici un dar, ci de un simplu imprumut. Pe care trebuie sa incerci sa-l meriti.

Vrei sa spui ca la "Viata" nu exista solutie? – Vreau sa spun ca la "Viata" exista mai multe solutii, prin urmare ea n-are solutie. – Dupa mine, Tanti Roz, singura solutie la viata este sa traiesti.

Pleasure is never as pleasant as we expected it to be and pain is always more painful. The pain in the world always outweighs the pleasure. If you don't believe it, compare the respective feelings of two animals, one of which is eating the other.

Hay pocas cosas que pongan con tanta seguridad de buen humor como el relato de alguna calamidad que se ha sufrido últimamente, o también la sincera confesión de una debilidad personal.

Whoever takes a gloomy view regards this world as a kind of hell and is accordingly concerned only with procuring for himself a small fireproof room.

One simple test of the claim that the pleasure in the world outweighs the pain…is to compare the feelings of an animal that is devouring another with those of the animal being devoured.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: Pocas veces pensamos en lo que tenemos; pero siempre en lo que nos falta (Schopenhauer)

The best any human can do is to pick a delusion that helps him get through the day

Free yourself from the shackles of an oppressive reality. What's real to you is what you imagine and what you feel. If you manage your illusions wisely, you might get what you want, but you won't necessarily understand why it worked.

Have you ever noticed that things that don't kill you make you weaker? And great minds don't think alike. If they did, the patent office would only have about fifty inventions. I started getting suspicious when I cried over spilt milk and the cashier took it off my bill." - Wally

Few things are as destructive and limiting as a worldview that assumes people are mostly rational.