Quotes About Perspective

That's because you're a highly moral person. I'm not. I don't judge, not even myself.

When the senile patient awakens in the morning and asks for his mother, remind him that she is long since dead, that he is over eighty years old and living in a convalescent home, and that this is 1992 and not 1913 and that he must face reality and the fact that

We have no value, she said to herself. We can live out our tiny lives. If we want to. If it matters to us. From

There wasn't a sane person left in Northern California. It was time to move somewhere else.

to the Bleekmen, we Earthmen may very well be hypomanic types, whizzing about at enormous velocity, expending huge amounts of energy over nothing at all.

I've read the Cosmic Trigger and Robert Anton Wilson says

However, I do think one could say this; rather than having it read: Ubik, by Philip K. Dick, one could put it this way: PHILIP K. DICK By Ubik In a sense I am joking, of course, but in a sense I am not.

It has a wheel in its cage; ever seen a squirrel running inside a wheel? It runs and runs, the wheel spins, but the squirrel stays in the same spot. Buffy seems to like it, though. I guess squirrels aren't too bright, Rick said.

I used to condemn junkies, like they could get off the stuff if they really wanted to, and that is just as stupid as saying, You could grow eyes in the back of your head if you really wanted to.

There wasn't a sane person left in Northern California. It was time to move somewhere else.

Realidade é aquela coisa que não desaparece quando você deixa de acreditar nela.

Nós dois caímos na gargalhada. Quando você está quase louco de dor, você ri do que puder.

That's because you're a highly moral person. I'm not. I don't judge, not even myself.

them. Saw a glimpse of it myself. What would

Half to himself, Fat said, He causes things to look different so it would appear time has passed.

Siempre que hablaba de ti, en realidad, no describía nada. Como si nunca te viera realmente. Como si nadie fuera real de verdad para mí.

I can't make your reality-situation palatable to you. But I can help you comprehend it.

Tripping across a country pasture with Junie Black... spreading out a blanket on the hot, dry hillside, among the smells of grass and afternoon sun. No, not there. Is that gone, too? Hollow outward form instead of substance; the sun not actually shining, the day not actually warm at all but cold, gray and quietly raining.

The gulf between their world and hers had manifested itself, however much they'd meditated on how to ball her, and remained.

You and I, when we argue, are made in each other. For when I understand what you understand, I become your understanding, and am made in you, in a certain ineffable way. —Erigena

Is he sick because he sees this? Or does he see this because he is sick?

Das Leben einer Spinne ist genauso groß wie Ihres, und Ihres ist genauso groß wie meins. Ein Leben ist ein Leben.

Ogni singolo uomo vede soltanto una porzione della verità complessiva; e molto spesso, in realtà quasi sempre, egli deliberatamente, si inganna anche su questo piccolo frammento. Una parte di se stesso gli si rivolta contro e prende ad agire come se fosse un'altra persona, distruggendolo dall'interno. Un uomo all'interno di un uomo. Il che vuol dire nessun uomo del tutto

Nella tua mente c'è qualcosa che nessun altro ha. Ma non si tratta di precognizione. Di cosa allora? Hai senso dell'umorismo fu la risposta di Gretchen.