Quotes About Perspective

Cats regard people as warm-blooded furniture.

Don't ever let anyone tell you that knowing how you should be reacting to a loss has anything to do with how you react when it's your loss.

You never step in the same river of thought twice, because neither you nor it are the same.

A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth.

I speak only one language, and it is not my own.

People think that they have no right to judge a 'fact' - all they have to do is to accept it.

A sacral society is one in which everything, including whatever is not sacred, is judged from the standpoint of the sacred. The profane is not the sacred, but it can exist only in a society which orders everything with reference to the sacred. The fact that man treats a given element as sacred does not mean that the rest is not sacred for the world is a whole. What it means is that the rest is located with reference to the ever present sacred.

C'est à vous d'être lacaniens, si vous voulez. Moi, je suis freudien. (You can be Lacanians, if you want. As for me, I'm a Freudian.)

perhaps I am a Lacanian because I formerly did Chinese

Love is giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it.

Our fate is shaped from within ourselves outward, never from without inward.

And then there were the poets, those unbelievable people so different from other men, who told anyone who would listen that a wish is more important than a fortune, and that a dream can weigh more than iron or steel.

maliar.. je tiež ?lovekom, a to skôr, ako je maliarom

Dans les livres, il n'y a rien ou presque rien d'important: tout est dans la tête de la personne qui lit.

Books contain nothing, or almost nothing, that's important: everything is in the mind of the person reading them.' If you were trying to find an idiotic remark, that one took the cake!

Disagreement is not the conflict between one who says white and another who says black. It is the conflict between one who says white and another who also says white but does not understand the same thing by it.

To explain something to someone is first of all to show him he cannot understand it by himself.

And of the fact that every vision of the past is a vision of the blind

Un livre a toujours deux auteurs : celui qui l'écrit et celui qui le lit.

J'accepte que ce que je dis n'est pas toujours ce qui est entendu et que ce que j'entends n'est pas forcément ce qui est dit.

Reac?iile noastre sunt determinate mai mult de interpretarea pe care o d?m evenimentelor decât de evenimentele în sine. S? vezi prin ochii altuia (privirea unei ter?e persoane este uneori util?), s? accep?i s?-?i repui în discu?ie convingerile este singura posibilitate de a avansa, de a evolua, de a te maturiza, de a cre?te.

Je ne peux changer autrui mais je peux changer mon regard, mon écoute et donc, par là, changer ma relation à lui.

An event is never just what it is in itself and nothing more. It's what goes on around it, at the same time, that makes it — potentially — a tragic situation. You have to have been exposed to this, at least once, to understand it.

Money is definitely needed, but how much money do we really need? If we would change our idea of a successful life to a joyful life, we would find our need for money would dramatically decrease.