Quotes About Perspective

On the plane to Mexico City, I thought about how death shreds time. My ordinary life had vanished.

Once when he [Demonax, a supposed Cynic sage] came upon two uncouth philosophers inquiring and wrangling with one another--one of them putting absurd questions, the other answering perfectly irrelevantly--he said "Don't you think, my friends, that one of these guys is milking a he-goat and the other putting a sieve underneath it?

You must know history. Even if you want to refuse, to reject things, you must be aware of what you are rejecting.

Whoever claims to have understood everything with hindsight cannot be taken seriously.

The illusion that there might be a single, correct, absolute answer independently of context, purpose and perspective, that is independently of the relevant interface, leads to paradoxical nonsense.

Youth is always impatient, even though, ironically, youth alone has time for patience.

The most irrational things can make a power of difference to a very ill woman.

they ask me to remember but they want me to remember their memories and I keep on remembering mine

Every pair of eyes facing you has probably experienced something you could not endure.

Just because I'm talking about something that might have been a sad or painful situation doesn't mean that I'm sad or tortured 24 hours a day any more than anybody else is.

Of course, I'm older now. I'm in a different place in my life than when I wrote the songs for 'Car Wheels' or 'Essence' or whatever. Different things were going on.

The more I separate myself from my upbringing, the more I appreciate what it's done for me.

The way I look at life, whatever I'm doing at that time in my life is going to be reflected in my songs, for the most part.

Yo he aprendido más de mi tierra yendo a los indios ranqueles, que en diez años de despestañarme, leyendo opúsculos, folletos, gacetillas, revistas y libros especiales.

I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

We are more often frightened than hurt and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both this is an observation of the Middle Way.

All things are cause for either laughter or weeping.

As is a tale, so is life not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

What is food to one man is bitter poison to others.