Quotes About Perspective

Men of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and the unreal

It is better to laugh at man from outside the universe, than to weep for him within.

People say 'Hofmann has different styles'. I have not. I have different moods; I am not two days the same man.

A man who has never been hungry may possess a more refined palate, but he has no idea what it means to eat.

Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all.

When a man is shooting a handgun, it's just like he is shooting because that's his job, and he has no other choice. It's no good. When a girl is shooting a handgun, it's really something.

The moral and spiritual aspects of both personal and international relationships have a practical bearing which so-called practical men deny.

Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.

I do not know at first what it is that harms me. The men and things of to-day are wont to be fairer and truer in to-morrow's memory.

The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond; but, if he looks at his telescope, then he does not see anything but that.

When flowers are full of heaven-descended dews, they always hang their heads; but men hold theirs the higher the more they receive, getting proud as they get full.

There is but one world common for those who are awake, but when men are asleep, each turns away into a world of his own.

The world needs all types of minds.

Don't worry, Sergey, that's just the way right-wing Republicans express their views.

Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn't so funny.

We need to learn how to want what we have NOT to have what we want in order to get steady and stable Happiness

When in the body of a donkey, enjoy the taste of grass.

We pass through elementary school, high school, and maybe college, and in one sense every diploma is an award for developing a more sophisticated ignorance. Education reinforces the habit of seeing the world through a certain lens. We

When we think of an experience as "only a dream" it is less "real" to us. It loses power over us—power that it only had because we gave it power—and can no longer disturb us and drive us into negative emotional states. Instead, we begin to encounter all experience with greater calm and increased clarity, and even with greater appreciation

I delved especially into black writers. Their analogies were relevant to my own experiences, and I understood them better for that.

At the ATM they ask if you'd like to conduct your business in English or Spanish. I suggest you try Spanish, because your account balance will look much better in pesos.

Some people ask, "What if the sky were to fall?"