Quotes About Perspective

It is not we who perceive, it is the thing that perceives itself yonder.

All knowledge is established within the horizons opened up by perception.

I can never say 'I' absolutely.

Are the limits between the ''inside'' and the "outside" so clear?

Memory deforms reality, which nevertheless is formed as reality only in memory

Self and other are not two distinct substances...We are both, other and self, two variables of the same system.

What is there at each moment is 'structural truth,' connected to perspective, to centering, to structurimg. Of course other ways of structuring are possinle, formalizations, from which it results that the current way of structuring is surpassed, that the current way of structuring looks to be a particular case.

There is a fitting together of different perspectival views; there is no fitting together of all of them in an absolute knowledge which is completely decentered and final...The passage from the particular to the universal is never finished.

Through other eyes we are for ourselves fully visible.

Rather than imprisoning it, language is like a magic machine for transporting the 'I' into the other person's perspective.

The universe is defined not by what one sees, what one says, but precisely by what one does not see, precisely what one does not say: by the difference between the one and the other.

History has no single signification; what we do always has several senses, and this is how an existential conception of history is distinguished from both materialism and spiritualism.

In the last analysis each one of us knows for his own part that the world as it is, is unacceptable.

We must stop thinking in terms of causality. Or again we must admit that we are dealing with a webbed causality and not a linear causality.

If objects must never show me more than one of their sides, then this is because I myself am in a certain place from which I can see them, but which I cannot see.

Since sane people find the insane impenetrable and irreducible, they consider themselves the sole owners of rationality.

It is impossible to separate the child from cultural influences; rather, it is a false problem.

Perhaps there are never any masters except after the fact and from afar.

Perception is already expression.

The child's consciousness is different from the adult's both in content and organization. Children are not, as previously thought, 'miniature adults.' Thus, contrary to the negative account, the child's consciousness is not identical to the adult's in everything except for its incompleteness and imperfection. The child possess another kind of equilibrium than the adult kind; therefore, we must treat the child's consciousness as a positive phenomenon.

Since perception itself is never complete, since ?ur perspectives give us a world to express and think about which envelopes and exceeds those perspectives, a world which announces itself in lightning signs as a spoken word or as an arabesque, why should the expression of the world be subjected to the prose of the senses or of the concept? It must be poetry; that is, it must completely awaken ?nd recall our sheer power of expressing beyond things already said or seen.

To change one's life is not to change outer circumstances: it is to change one's reactions.

Girls are infinitely more complicated than boys and women more than men. And there's no doubt about that. We just don't like to think about it. Certainly the men don't like to think about it.

I'd like to believe an accumulation of experience has made me a sort of a grown-up person, so I can have judgment and taste and whatever.