Quotes About Perspective

This text that I give you is not to be seen close up: it gains its secret previously invisible roundness when seen from a high-flying plane. Then you can divine the play of islands and see the channels and seas. Understand me: I write you an onomatopoeia, convulsion of language. I'm not transmitting to you a story but just words that live from sound. I speak to you thus: "Lustful trunk.

No one can enter another's heart.

She'd heard on Clock Radio that there were seven billion people in the world. She felt lost. But with the tendency she had to be happy she immediately consoled herself: there were seven billion people to help her.

It isn't for us that cows' milk comes forth, but we drink it. Flowers weren't made for us to look at or for us to smell, and we look at them and smell them. The Milky Way doesn't exist for us to know if its existence, but we know.

My expectations closed the world to me.

For her reality was too much to be believed.

Eu escrevo à meia-noite porque sou escuro. Ângela escreve de dia porque é quase sempre luz alegre.

Mi error, sin embargo, debía ser el camino de una verdad: pues sólo cuando me equivoco salgo de lo que conozco y de lo que entiendo. Si la "verdad" fuese aquello que puedo entender, terminaría siendo sólo una verdad pequeña, de mi tamaño

The struggle to reach reality—that's the main objective of this creature who tries, in every way, to cling to whatever exists by means of a total vision of things. I meant to make clear too the way vision—the way of seeing, the viewpoint—alters reality, constructing it. A house is not only constructed with stones, cement etc. A man's way of looking constructs it too.

Muchas veces nuestra libertad es tan intensa que miramos para otro lado.

There were two ways of looking at it: imagining that it was far away and big, in the first place; in the second, that it was small and near. But at any rate, a stupid, hard, brown mountain. How she hated nature sometimes.

A grande bondade do santo – é que para ele tudo é igual .

I said to a friend: -- Like has always asked too much of me. She replied: -- But don't forget that you also ask too much of life.

Só há dois modos de descobrir que a Terra é redonda: ou estudando em livros, ou sendo feliz.

Meu erro, no entanto, devia ser o caminho de uma verdade: pois só quando erro é que saio do que conheço e do que entendo. Se a "verdade" fosse aquilo que posso entender – terminaria sendo apenas uma verdade pequena, do meu tamanho.

Don't you remember you once told me: 'today's pain will be your joy tomorrow; there is nothing that escapes transfiguration.' Don't you remember? Maybe it wasn't exactly like that...

My error, however, had to be the path of truth: for only when I err do I get away from what I know and what I understand. If 'truth' were what I can understand…it would end up being but a small truth, my-sized.

Depois que descobri em mim mesma como é que se pensa, fazendo comigo mesma negociatas, nunca mais pude acreditar no pensamento dos outros.

Uma pessoa leu meus contos e disse que aquilo não era literatura, era lixo. Concordo. Mas há hora para tudo. Há também a hora do lixo. (Someone read my stories and said that it wasn't literature, it was rubbish. I agree. But there is time for everything. There's also garbage time).

We don't know the value of darkness until we have destroyed it.

Put simply, all religion is anthropocentric.

In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations.

I love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things.

I remember an article, I can't recall who by, it was after the fall of the Berlin Wall, which said that now the Wall was down, there could be no more class war. Only someone with money could ever say such a thing.