Quotes About Perspective

What else but a profound feeling of being excluded can enable a person better to see the absurdity of the world and his own existence, or, to put it more soberly, the absurd dimensions of the world and his own existence?

Hope does not consist of expecting things to turn out well, it consists of hoping that it will make sense

Truth lies not only in what is said, but also in who says it, to whom, why, how and under what circumstances.

It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it.

It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually.

What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.

One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.

She had a great many opinions, but taken together they did not add up to a point of view.

I come from a set of storytellers and moralists…. The storytellers were forever changing the tale and the moralists tampering with it in order to put it in an edifying light.

It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where everything starts unravelling...

It isn't that there's no right and wrong here. There's no right.

Small things start us in new ways of thinking

A stranger could drive through Miguel Street and just say "Sum!" because he could see no more. But we who lived there saw our street as a world, where everybody was quite different from everybody else. Mam-man was mad; George was stupid; Big Foot was a bully; hat was an adventurer; Popo was a philosopher; and Morgan was our comedian.

Life—how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Suddenly it becomes possible that there are just others, that we ourselves are an "other" among others.

Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you.

If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

Society is a complex and mysterious creation and . it's extremely imprudent to believe in the fact it presents you with at a given moment, let alone to consider it the one and only true face.

side trips have been as important to my life as the main voyages. Maybe more important.

I think it ain't that prayer doesn't work, it's that we don't like the answers.

Believe them and they'll tell you all sorts of things.

Believe them and they'll you all sorts of things.

Lately, Nastoyna felt that she had no right to criticize anyone at all -- no man, no animal, no bird, because each lived his own life, which was not in his control and which he could not change.

And here, like everything else, life changed from a whole number into a fraction with a numerator and a denominator, and it became difficult to figure out what was above the line and what was below it