Quotes About Perspective

Es inútil, ya no tenemos la sabiduría de los antiguos, ¡se acabó la época de los gigantes! -Somos enanos -admitió Guillermo-, pero enanos subidos a los hombros de aquellos gigantes, y, aunque pequeños, a veces logramos ver más allá de su horizonte.

Jangan percaya begitu saja pada apa yang disebut sebagai sejarah

And you," I said with childish impertinence, "never commit errors?" "Often," he answered. "But instead of conceiving only one, I imagine many, so I become the slave of none.

Here, then, is another proposition: The medium is not the message; the message becomes what the receiver makes of it, applying to it his own codes of reception, which are neither those of the sender nor those of the scholar of communications.

But how does it happen," I said with admiration, "that you were able to solve the mystery of the library looking at it from the outside, and you were unable to solve it when you were inside?" "Thus God knows the world, because He conceived it in His mind, as if from the outside, before it was created, and we do not know its rule, because we live inside it, having found it already made.

World visions can conceive of everything, except alternative world visions...

As the Chinese said, to curse someone: "May you live in an interesting period.

How clear everything becomes when you look from the darkness of a dungeon!

Among the many certainties whose lack he complained of, one alone is present, and it is that all things appear to us as they appear to us, and it is impossible for them to appear otherwise.

El ingenuo dominico dice que también él ha pedido el permiso y se lo han negado. «Pero tú, ¿cómo lo has pedido?», le pregunta el jesuita. Y el dominico: «¿Puedo fumar mientras rezo?». Era obvio que le contestaran que no. En cambio, el jesuita preguntó «¿Puedo rezar mientras fumo?», y los superiores le dijeron que se podía rezar en cualquier circunstancia.

En París siempre tienen la respuesta verdadera? —Nunca, pero están muy seguros de sus errores.

Cuando hablo con Ubertino me da la impresión de que el infierno es el paraíso visto desde la otra parte. No

enanos —admitió Guillermo—, pero enanos subidos sobre los hombros de aquellos gigantes y, aunque pequeños, a veces logramos ver más allá de su horizonte.

Ho messo Praga proprio all'inizio perché è una tra le mie città magiche. Ma mi piace anche Dublino. Metta Dublino al posto di Praga, non farà nessuna differenza. A quel punto la reazione dei traduttori fu: Ma Dublino non è stata invasa dai russi! Al che risposi: Non è colpa mia.

hell is heaven seen from the other side.

Desgraciadamente, «posmoderno» es un término que sirve para cualquier cosa. Tengo la impresión de que hoy se aplica a todo lo que le gusta a quien lo utiliza. Por

Es inútil, ya no tenemos la sabiduría de los antiguos, ¡se acabó la época de los gigantes! —Somos enanos —admitió Guillermo—, pero enanos subidos sobre los hombros de aquellos gigantes y, aunque pequeños, a veces logramos ver más allá de su horizonte.

Between the unattainable intention of the author and the arguable intention of the reader, there is the transparent intention of the text, which refutes untenable interpretations.

Do not expect too much of the end of the world. —StanisÅ'aw J. Lec, Aforyzmy. Fraszki, Kraków, Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1977, "MyÅ›li nieuczesane

Se por acaso se espalhasse a ideia de que a poluição no mundo compromete não só as baleias mas também (desculpem o tecnicismo) os perus, acho que teríamos súbitas conversões ao ecologismo.

the best ideas may not come from the major authors.

Çok önemi var, çünkü biz burada, kitaplar aras?nda, kitaplarla birlikte, kitaplara göre yaÅŸayan insanlar aras?nda ne olduÄŸunu anlamaya çal???yoruz; bu nedenle onlar?n kitaplar üstüne söyledikleri sözler de önemlidir.

That must be it, you were compassionate about the little things and cynical about the big things.

I understood it this evening: the author has to die in order for the reader to become aware of his truth.