Quotes About Perspective

No street corner has any justification over another one. Custom dissolves into nothingness.

we are not on the side of history made. We were, as I have said, situated in such a way that every lived minute seemed to us like something irreducible.

why distort a past that can no longer stand up for itself?

?nsan, kad?n ya da erkek, ele?tirdi?i ki?iyi sevme ?ans?n? da yakalam??sa, fazlas?yla ac?mas?z olmayan ele?tirilerde bulunman?n anlam? yoktur.

Vaikai ir kareiviai apie mirusius negalvoja.

Lo sai, quando giocavamo all'avventuriero e all'avventuriera, tu eri quello a cui capitavano avventure ed io ero quella che le faceva capitare.

Si, sono contenta che tu sia rimasto lo stesso. Se t'avessero spostato, ridipinto, piantato sul margine d'un'altra strada, non avrei avuto più nulla di fisso per orientarmi. Tu mi sei indispensabile: io cambio; tu, è inteso che resti immutabile ed io misuro i miei cambiamenti in rapporto a te.

This is what I thought: for the most banal even to become an adventure, you must (and this is enough) begin to recount it. This is what fools people: a man is always a teller of tales, he lives surrounded by his stories and the stories of others, he sees everything that happens to him through them; and he tries to live his own life as if he were telling a story.

Ä°nsanlar hikâyecilikten kurtulamaz, kendi hikâyeleri ve baÅŸkalar?n?n hikâyeleri aras?nda yaÅŸar. Ba??na gelen her ÅŸeyi hikâyeler içinden görür. Hayat?n?, sanki anlat?yormuÅŸ gibi yaÅŸamaya çal???r.

Pas facile, pour le philosophe, de dialoguer si l'interlocuteur met en cause sa doctrine tout en refusant de parler philosophie!

Is building n sugar really better than building on sand?

I don't have something you don't; you believe something I don't.

The price of truth is everything, but no one knows what everything means until they're paying it.

When we believe in the world outside of ourselves, gain is often perceived as good and loss as bad. When we stop believing in a world external to self. that reverses: gain becomes bad and loss becomes good. Nothing we can lose was ever ours in the first place. All we can ever lose is illusion.

English teachers often take a right-wrong stance. I'd rather my students take a thinking stance.

incorrect assumptions keep us from seeing the correct answer.

I know family comes first, but shouldn't that mean after breakfast?

And here I always thought morality was useless

They like to tell us that it is important to speak the truth, but it has been my experience that real happiness lies in having people tell you what you want to believe, usually not the same thing at all, and if you have to stub your toe on the truth later, so be it.

I sighed; as comforting as it may be to some of us, sarcasm, like youth, is wasted on the young.

Of course it was a terrible thing, and the world would be a much better place without someone in it who could do that, but did that mean we had to miss lunch?

First things first has always been my motto, mostly because it makes absolutely no sense - after all, if first things were second or third, they wouldn't be first things, would they? Still, cliches exist to comfort the feeble minded, not to provide any actual meaning.

Still, it's always nice to be around somebody who thinks I am wonderful. It confirms my low opinion of people.

Anytime somebody is absolutely certain about something, they are almost always absolutely wrong