Quotes About Perspective

either I can be like some traveler of the olden days, who was faced with a stupendous spectacle, all, or almost all, of which eluded him, or worse still, filled him with scorn and disgust; or I can be a modern traveler, chasing after the vestiges of a vanished reality....A few hundred years hence, in this same place another traveler, as despairing as myself, will mourn the disappearance of what I might have seen, but failed to see.

The more we claim to discriminate between cultures and customs as good and bad, the more completely do we identify ourselves with those we would condemn. By refusing to consider as human those who seem to us to be the most "savage" or "barbarous" of their representatives, we merely adopt one of their own characteristic attitudes. The barbarian is, first and foremost, the man who believes in barbarism.

One must be very naïve or dishonest to imagine that men choose their beliefs independently of their situation.

The first thing we see as we travel round the world is our own filth, thrown into the face of mankind.

while I complain of being able to glimpse no more than the shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is taking shape at this very moment, since I have not reached the stage of development at which I would be capable of perceiving it.

Every effort to understand destroys the object studied in favor of another object of a different nature; this second object requires from us a new effort which destroys it in favor of a third, and so on and so forth until we reach the one lasting presence, the point at which the distinction between meaning and the absence of meaning disappears: the same point from which we began.

Undoubtedly, we become what we envisage.

All women are fatal. But maybe all men are fatal too, to almost all women? I say maybe, and I say almost. What do we know about the other sex?

I was born too soon into a world too young.

Nothing that is mine seems to me to deserve my pride: in the seventh grade, I couldn't admire the eighth-grades enough, though the eighth grade seemed to me quite devoid of charm once I was in it. And so on until the day I found myself with a doctorate in something and decorated, and had only scorn for such mediocre privileges. Life grows disenchanting as our dreams are fulfilled.

If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!

La littérature est parfaitement inutile, sa seule utilité est qu'elle aide à vivre.

When I cast my mind back and compare it with the treadmill stress that my life is now, I think ah, those were the days. I didn't know I was born. Sometimes it's not being at the top that's the truly joyous part of success, it's getting there.

Being an old maid is a little bit like drowning. A really delightful sensation once you give up the struggle.

Well sometimes things don't make sense right away, so you might as well put them aside and wait until they do" -Mom

But right now, I'm going to focus on the beauty of life, not the darkness

It's amazing how just one thing said by just one person in the middle of just one conversation on just one regular day can start a person wondering things she had never wondered before.

When you're in a family, it's not clear where one person's story begins and another person's story ends" -Autumn

Por qué tanta gente cree que su vida es única y yo creo que la mía es igual a la de cualquiera?

modo: "Lo cierto es que las catedrales no significan nada especial para mí. Nada. Catedrales. Es algo que se ve en la televisión a última hora

Memory is a tough place. You were there. If this is not the truth, it is also not a lie.

context is not meaning.

You are reminded of a conversation you had recently, comparing the merits of sentences constructed implicitly with "yes, and" rather than "yes, but.

People feel hurt when you point out the reality that forms experience because the reality is not their emotional experience.