Quotes About Perspective

whose brain was no bigger than a medium-sized walnut,

No nap! Mew-eezum!

got the idea from Lumawoo's cannibal book,

it is certainly not the chicken pox.

I see biscuit!" "No, I see biscuit!" "Giddy-yap, giddy-yap, Rainbowooooo

All instruction is but as a finger pointing to the moon; and he whose gaze is fixed upon the pointer will never see beyond.

Times of sadness are the very moment to laugh and laugh greatly.

If you don't acknowledge the bad side of things, bad things don't even exist. Only divinity exists.

Nature does not change, although the way of viewing nature invariably changes from age to age.

People live their lives bound by what they accept as correct and true. That's how they define Reality. But what does it mean to be "correct" or "true"? Merely vague concepts… Their Reality may all be a mirage. Can we consider them to simply be living in their own world, shaped by their beliefs?

Gewiß, ich bin sehr happy: Doch glücklich bin ich nicht.

Zwei Seiten Eines läßt sich nicht bestreiten: Jede Sache hat zwei Seiten. — Die der andern, das ist eine, Und die richtige Seite, deine.

When something cannot be described, it does not become a fact of shared reality.

The stories she'd read of others' lives over these last few months had left her with a greater appreciation for the thread of her own life.

Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.

For many, immaturity is an ideal, not a defect.

The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind

The nonsense that charms is close to sense.

Vacations prove that a life of pleasure is overrated.

Radical historians now the tell the story of Thanksgiving from the point of view of the turkey.

Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them.

I'm being treated like a sex object, cried the lady. No matter. I will take care of it, said Time soothingly.

Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.

Young poets bewail the passing of love old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference.