Quotes About Perspective

that just because you see something, it doesn't mean to say it's there. And if you don't see something, it doesn't mean to say it's not there. It's only what your senses bring to your attention.

You cannot see what I see because you see what you see. You cannot know what I know because you know what you know. What I see and what I know cannot be added to what you see and what you know because they are not of the same kind. Neither can it replace what you see and what you know, because that would be to replace you yourself.

I went mad for a while," said Ford, "did me no end of good.

Ah, a vida - disse Marvin, lúgubre. - Pode-se odiá-la ou ignorá-la, mas é impossível gostar dela.

The human race is currently sitting round a rock on the other side of this hill making documentaries about themselves.

Well, I wouldn't overstress that angle, you know,' he said finally, 'one's never alone with a rubber duck.

The 'guide' is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.

Ripristineremo la normalità appena saremo sicuri di cosa sia in ogni caso il normale.

Listen!" said Roosta urgently. "You can kill a man, destroy his body, break his spirit, but only the Total Perspective Vortex can annihilate a man's soul! The treatment lasts seconds, but the effects last the rest of your life!

If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.

Where they are, how they are, there's no way we can know and no way we can do anything about it. Do what I do.' 'What?' 'Don't think about it.

I briefly did therapy, but after a while, I realised it is just like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can't fix the weather - you just have to get on with it.

The man who invented the Total Perspective Vortex did so basically in order to annoy his wife.

What's he saying?" asked Trillian. "Nothing," said Zaphod, "he just phoned to wash his head at us.

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Douglas Adams: The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas-covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 millions miles away, and think this to be normal, is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be. (Helgoland, 117.)

The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas-covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 millions miles away, and think this to be normal, is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.

I'd far rather be happy than right any day.

Look," said Zaphod, "will you get it into your heads? That's just a recorded message. It's millions of years old. It doesn't apply to us, get it?

Hey, what happened with all that anyway?' 'Just life,' said Arthur, and plucked a beer from a six-pack. 'Oh, that again,' said Ford. 'I thought it might be something like that. I prefer this stuff,' he said as Rick's bar flickered onto the screen.

Do normálu sa vrátime ihne? ako stanovíme ?o je vlastne normálne.

Does that matter at this stage?" shouted Arthur.

So what's the point of showing me something I can't see?' 'So that you understand that just because you see something, it doesn't mean to say it's there. And if you don't see something, it doesn't mean to say it's not there. It's only what your senses bring to your attention.

Zaman bir yan?lsamad?r.