Quotes About Perspective

No doubt her uncle had his reasons.

It was easy to talk to Begu. Perhaps because she said such strange things, perhaps because Hild got the sense she never took people seriously.

She had found that people, especially people who spoke a different tongue, would get anxious if they didn't get to have their say in their own way, even if they spoke in a long rush, burying to get their words out.

We sat silently, contemplating the ghosts we had created between us, and the difference between our world and that of most people.

From the strange, cold distance in which she had placed herself, Hild wondered what he would do if she said she could see into the realm of the dead. He would believe her. They all believed her, no matter what she said.

She turned her head slightly, to examine me out of each eye, as though each saw a different world but only one could be trusted.

All their memories interlock and look down the same path to the same places. Each memory reflects another, repeats, reinforces until the known becomes the only.

Shift your balance and everything changes.

She could never be certain of the queen's feelings, but perhaps on this they were of the same mind.

Watch man and woman, her mother had said, put yourself inside them. Imagine what they're thinking.

To not being nine years old and at the mercy of the world.

Watch men and women, her mother had said, put yourself inside them. Imagine what they're thinking.

Stay in the world, she had said, and this was the world I had made.

I was hungry for another viewpoint, to see Julia for the first time.

Watch women and men, put yourself inside them. Imagine what they're thinking.

It was obvious." "Maybe to you.

Bravery is relative. Perhaps it's the same with dreams.

It was only now that she understood, for the first time, that despite her title, her uniform, and the two stars on her shoulder, she was as helpless as any native herder or farmer or sailor.

Relativism is the solution of one who is incapable of putting things in order.

Truths are not relative. What is relative are opinions about truth.

Instead of looking for explanations for the fact of inequality, anthropologists should look for the explanation for the notion of equality.

Reading Nietzsche as a response is not understanding him. Nietzsche is an immense interrogation.

Unnütz, jemandem einen Gedanken erklären zu wollen, dem eine Anspielung nicht genügt.

None of us finds it difficult to love the neighbor who seems inferior to us. But to love someone we know is superior is another thing.