Quotes About Perspective

Leer a Nietzsche como respuesta es no entenderlo. Nietzsche es una interrogación inmensa.

Whoever does not understand that two perfectly contrary attitudes can both be perfectly justified ought not to engage in criticism.

Quienes gimen sobre la estrechez del medio en que viven pretenden que los acontecimientos, los vecinos, los paisajes, les den la sensibilidad y la inteligencia que la naturaleza les negó.

Alle Welt ist heute links. Welche Erleichterung!

The horror of progress can only be measured by someone who has known a landscape before and after progress has transformed it.

The fool is scandalized and laughs when he notices that philosophers contradict each other. It is difficult to make the fool understand that philosophy is precisely that: the art of contradicting each other without canceling each other out.

It never again mattered to me where I lived after I saw the spacious, dilapidated homes pass away and the wide open, deserted fields of my infancy covered with industrial and human filth.

With good humor and pessimism it is not possible to be either wrong or bored.

Whereas contemporaries read only the optimist with enthusiasm, posterity rereads the pessimist with admiration.

Primitive man transforms objects into subjects; modern man transforms subjects into objects. We can suppose that the former deceives himself, but we know with certainty that the latter is wrong.

The word "humanity" in the mouth of a Catholic is a sign of apostasy, in the unbeliever's a sign of coming bloodbaths.

When the dust raised by the great events of modern history settles, the mediocrity of the protagonists leaves the historian dumbfounded.

Men disagree less because they think differently than because they do not think.

We reactionaries will live in the future society just as uncomfortably as will the Marxists; but the Marxists will look upon it with the eyes of a dumbfounded father, while we will regard it with the irony of a stranger.

Photography shows us how the imbecile views the world.

Relativism is the solution of one who is incapable of putting things in order. Truths do not contradict each other except when they fall out of order.

Puedes vender cielo, el cielo azul a veces, o gris también a veces, una parcela de tu cielo, el que compraste, piensas tú, con los árboles] de tu huerto, como quien compra el techo con la casa?] ¿Puedes venderme un dólar de cielo, dos kilómetros de cielo, un trozo, el que tú piensas, de tu cielo?

Sometimes a fool makes a good suggestion.

However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him.

Time flies and draws us with it. The moment in which I am speaking is already far from me.

Le vrai peut quelquefois n'être pas vraisemblable. (At times truth may not seem probable)

Traveling provides occasions for shaking oneself up but not, as people believe, freedom. Indeed it involves a kind of reduction: deprived of one's usual setting, the customary routine stripped away like so much wrapping paper, the traveller finds himself reduced to more modest proportions - but also more open to curiosity, to intuition, to love at first sight.

Ce n'est jamais la vie qui décline, mais seulement l'idée qu'on parvient à s'en faire.

Beyond a certain degree of hardship or misery, life often revives and heals the scars. As time passed, deportation [to the concentration camps for the young woman] had become a kind of voyage and even, thanks to the almost terrifying capacity of memory to transform horror into courage, a voyage that she could easily mention. Any way of seeing the world is good, as long as one returns.