Quotes About Perspective

No nation was ever drunk when wine was cheap.

There is no reason to believe that we are now on a higher intellectual or spiritual level than during ancient times.

In the Old Testament, substitutes for the divine presence were called demons or false gods. If we can grasp the fact that only the experience of God can put into perspective all other forms of pleasure or the promises of happiness that various creatures provide, then we will realize that we are looking for happiness in the grass, in the wrong places. All the help we can get from other people who experience the same psychological privation won't do a bit of good.

They overlook the possibility that brainstorming can be a skill, an art, more like playing the piano than tying your shoes.

A book has but one voice, but it does not instruct everyone alike.

historians are not often appreciated because their research tends to destroy myths. I

We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on here and there, but what we know we know by ripples and spirals eddying out from us and from our own time.

historians are not often appreciated because their research tends to destroy myths.

Most of us think that history is the past. It's not. History is the stories we tell about the past. That's all it is.

The truth about stories is, that's all we are.

There are no truths. Only stories.

The truth about stories is that that's all we are.

Stories are wondrous things. And they are dangerous."

There are no truths, Coyote," I says. "Only stories.

History is the stories we tell about the past.

Where do you begin telling someone their world is not the only one? —Lee Maracle, Ravensong

Why do we ask the important questions after they've been answered?

And cranky old Jacques Derrida notwithstanding, we do love our dichotomies.

You know you're only old if you want to be.

Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists.

Clarity affords focus.

All of us, young and old, need to be reminded that our attitude is something we choose. "Most people," Abraham Lincoln said, "are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Most people," Abraham Lincoln said, "are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

No one in a productive society wants you to know there ways of looking at the world other than their ways, and among the effects drugs may have is that of switching a mind from the normal track. Reading the works of certain writers has a corresponding effect. When receptive individuals explore the writings of someone such as Lovecraft, they are majestically solaced to find articulations of existence countering those to which the heads around them have become habituated.