Quotes About Perspective

I've got a tip." "Me, too. Let a smile be your umbrella and you're gonna get your dumb ass wet.

Alone, Eve wondered how anyone managed to work in a room without a window. Then she wondered, with all of those books Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Maybe they were his window.

I know I say people suck, but I didn't mean it literally.

Understanding wasn't always the answer. He knew that. Accepting was.

If you don't like a book, lay it aside. It was not written for you.

No, Paul, I couldn't care less if you tell me made-up stories. Our lies reveal as much about us as our truths.' (Said to Paul by Elizabeth Costello, the interloping novelist-angel-inner voice).

There are people who have the capacity to imagine themselves as someone else, there are people who have no such capacity (when the lack is extreme, we call them psychopaths), and there are people who have the capacity but choose not to exercise it.

For, seen from the outside, from a being who is alien to it, reason is simply a vast tautology.

but what do slow and fast matter any more?

Es ist nicht die Sprache, die den Menschen zum Menschen macht, sondern die Sprache der anderen.

we can pretend that the book in question is not Mr. West's but mine, made mine by the madness of my reading.

we can only know and understand ourselves fully through others – through the way we experience others and ourselves in relation to others, and the way others experience us. This

Y qué es la verdad sino la manera en que son las cosas?

How can I accept that disaster has overtaken my life when the world continues to move so tranquilly through its cycles?

Let me point out that a duck's idea of being saved may be different from your idea of being saved. It may include being left in peace by human beings.

I don't like wine,' says Davíd. 'It's sour.' 'Wine is an acquired taste. When we are young we don't like it, then when we are older we acquire a taste for it.' 'I am never going to acquire a taste for it.' 'That's what you say. Let's wait and see.' Having

Trotzdem konnte er sich nicht vorstellen, sein Leben damit zu verbringen, Grenzpfähle in die Erde zu treiben, Zäune zu errichten, das Land aufzuteilen. Er sah sich nicht als etwas Schweres, das Spuren hinterließ, sondern allenfalls als einen winzigen Fleck auf der Oberfläche der Erde, die zu fest schlief, um das Kratzen eines Ameisenfußes, das Raspeln von Schmetterlingszähnen, das Taumeln von Staub zu bemerken.

The reason is that as far as I am concerned, what happened to me is a purely private matter. In another time, in another place it might be held to be a public matter. But in this place, in this time, it is not. It is my bussines, mine alone. 'This place being what?' 'This place being South Africa

There are too much of them according to our scales, not to theirs... The more, the happier.

Claro que es cierto. No me ayudarán a mejorar de vida, en el sentido material ni en el sentido espiritual. ¿Y quieres saber por qué? Porque no existe esa vida mejor.

Entonces, será que lo ha asumido por sí mismo. Por la idea que tiene del mundo, un mundo en el que los hombres no emplean palas para golpear cadáveres y darles una forma más conveniente para su posterior procesamiento

me refiero al mundo, al ancho mundo. Pues eso es el mundo desde cierta perspectiva: una prisión en la que te vas deteriorando, te encorvas, padeces incontinencia, mueres y luego (si crees en ciertas historias en las que yo no creo) te despiertas en alguna playa desconocida donde tienes que repetir otra vez toda la función.

problema es que son demasiados —dice Bev Shaw—. Es imposible que lo entiendan, y tampoco tenemos manera de decírselo. Son demasiados, según nuestro criterio, que no es el suyo. Si pudieran, se multiplicarían sin cesar hasta llenar la tierra.

Este no es un mundo posible –dice–. Es el único. Si eso lo convierte en el mejor o no, no debemos decidirlo ni usted ni yo.