Quotes About Perspective

Of all the significant things I noted in the world, one significantly stood out, the insignificance of man.

The art of life is being extremely serious about it and not caring about it at all, both at the same time.

The nature of things has never been a problem, our perceived nature of them and perception of their nature has always been.

The world is never the problem, we just need to align to it and the way to is to align to ourselves and the way to align to ourselves is to align to the truth.

There is nothing as despicable as a lie that has reached the apex therein as to be universally viewed as the truth.

To wish that the world were better is the best indicator that you need to be better, not the best indicator that the world isn't the best it can be.

It was as if, from 1967 on, for several years, two different tribes of Americans experienced the same outward events but experienced them as two quite different realities.

It is very easy to make clear what you want a film to say, but I did not wish to engage in overt propaganda, even for the right cause. I wanted to create an experience through the films, something where people could have the freedom of their own response to them.

The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever have discovered so much to be hidden in it.

Happy the man who early learns the difference between his wishes and his powers.

We cannot too soon convince ourselves how easily we may be dispensed with in the world. What important personages we imagine ourselves to be! We think that we alone are the life of the circle in which we move; in our absence, we fancy that life, existence, breath will come to a general pause, and, alas, the gap which we leave is scarcely perceptible, so quickly is it filled again; nay, it is often the place, if not of something better, at least for something more agreeable.

What is hardest of all? That which seems most simple: to see with your eyes what is before your eyes.

Nothing is so hard to bear as a train of happy days

Gegner glauben uns zu wiederlegen, wenn sie ihre meinung wiederholen und auf die unsrige nicht achten.

est-ce une illusion que d'être heureux?

Es hört doch jeder nur, was er versteht.

Those who have never seen themselves surrounded on all sides by the sea can never possess an idea of the world, and of their relation to it.

Tak, od razu ka?dy pomy?li: po co nam w to nos wtyka?? Wszak szyja le?y tu? ko?o nosa.

Be concerned with how you live than with how long

Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.

There was no such thing as Palestinians…. It was not as though there was a Palestinian people… and we came and threw them out and took their country away from them. They did not exist.

Whether women are better than men I cannot say — but I can say they are certainly no worse.

Being seventy is not a sin.

Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.