Quotes About Perspective

Too many historical writers are the votaries of cults, which, by definition are dedicated to whitewashing warts and hanging halos.

Religion is all bunk.

All Bibles are man-made.

Through the Adult the little person can begin to tell the difference between life as it was taught and demonstrated to him (Parent), life as he felt it or wished it or fantasied it (Child), and life as he figures it out by himself (Adult).

Parent is not the same as mother or father, Adult means something quite different from a grownup, and Child is not the same as a little person.

I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I remembered who was telling me this. — Emo Philips

sin embargo, el conocimiento más delgado que se puede obtener de las cosas más altas es más deseable que el conocimiento más cierto obtenido de las cosas menores

Objection 3: Further, it is written (1 Cor. 13:12): "We see now through a glass in a dark manner; but then face to face.

Satisfaction = what you have ÷ what you want

The conformation of his mind was such that whatever was little seemed to him great, and whatever was great seemed to him little.

History begins in novel and ends in essay.

A history in which every particular incident may be true may on the whole be false.

Having contact sheets for all sorts of episodes in your life seemed to me intriguing and desirable. So much of my own history is beclouded by time, but a few sharp rays, in the form of pictures, falling upon a given day would resuscitate whole contexts. And from this archipelago of moments, scenes, episodes, you could see the larger tectonic movements of your life forming and unforming. You would be reminded of who you are. Or at least of who you were.

No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.

Believe me, the real romantic person is him who ain't done anything but imagine. If you have actually participated in disasters, like me, you get conservative.

If you want to really relax sometime, just fall to rock bottom and you'll be a happy man. Most all troubles come from having standards.

If you want to really relax sometime, just fall to rock bottom and you'll be a happy man. Most all troubles come from having standards.

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.

Believe me, the real romantic person is him who ain't done anything but imagine. If you have actually participated in disasters, like me, you get conservative.

You might have thought the colonel would be interested in my experiences of five years' barbarism, but he wasn't. I wasn't long in discovering that it is a rare person in the white world who wants to hear what the other fellow says, all the more so when the other fellow really knows what he is talking about.

Tell us, Merlin," said he, "why do we feel no sense of triumph in this?" And Merlin answered, "Well, is not triumph a childish feeling, Sire?

Then I am fundamentally a slave, I whom you call the most glorious king of all?" said Arthur. "No man is free who needeth air to breathe," said Merlin.

time belongs to everybody and everything, and nobody and nothing can lay claim to any part of it exclusively, so if you talk about the past as though there was just one version of it that everybody agrees on, you might be seen as stealing the spirit of others

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.