Quotes About Perspective

Frankly you look more like a goat man to me.

Listen, Ruth. I saw the fabric of reality split open. I saw—behind. Underneath. I saw what was really there. And I don't want to go back.

Qualquer homem vê apenas uma pequena porção da verdade total, e muitas vezes, na verdade quase sempre de maneira perpétua, ele também se engana deliberadamente em relação a esse pequeno e precioso fragmento. Uma porção dele se volta contra si e age como outra pessoa, derrotando-o por dentro. Um homem dentro de outro homem. O qual não é, em absoluto, um homem. -O homem duplo

O s? cred ce vreau eu s? cred, iar tu crezi ce vrei. De acord?

No two things were the same ever. No two stones, mice, drops of water, snowflakes. What did they call it? Nominalism. Perhaps it applied to people, to the same person at different times. There was no same person.

We have a hodge-podge of leaks in reality.

Ist die traurigste Realität nicht immer noch besser als die Illusion?

Oamenii îÈ›i zic de toate. De la faptul c? nu faci doi bani pân? la faptul c? eÈ™ti nepreÈ›uit?. Cele mai rele È™i cele mai bune lucruri. Întotdeauna atingi pe cineva aici - cioc?ni cu degetul solniÈ›a - È™i pe cineva acolo...

Uma realidade de sofrimento não é melhor que a mais interessante das ilusões?

Weltanschauung.

But it if was helping him, what would the criterion be? I mean, you know, if he only dreamed that he heard a voice telling him what to do, how to do it, this is a phantasm of his own mind. And yet, if the results are the same … It raises … Oddly enough, Paul, you'll be amazed to discover that I tend to want to treat the questionness of what is real.

I'm not in the novel, I am the novel

Science fiction acts best as a guide to help people cope with the present. It should sharpen our concern and ability to handle current problems. It shouldn't just be an escape.

But there are other things than work.

At least that was what she had told me. You never know with women. What they tell you and what they don't tell you is a very long bridge across a very wide river with all kinds of fish.

Since the majority of me Rejects the majority of you, Debating ends forthwith, and we Divide.

The dry high spirits of this destroyer of optimism make most optimists look damp and depressed.

We shouldn't live as if [other worlds] mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.

Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I never would... and then someone passed me a bit of some sweet stuff, and suddenly I realized that I had been to China. So to speak. And I'd forgotten it.

Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I never would. I'd spend all my life without ever going to China, but it wouldn't matter, because there was all the rest of the world to visit.

You're in a world full of color and you want to see it in black and white.

You won't understand anything about the imagination until you realise that it's not about making things up, it's about perception.

And think what worrying does: has anyone ever added a single hour to the length of his life by worrying about it?

Still, Fritz was an optimist, and Karl was a pessimist, and that makes all the difference in the world.