Quotes About Perspective

Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.

Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.

Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

Reading alters the appearance of a book. Once it has been read, it never looks the same again, and people leave their individual imprint on a book they have read. Once of the pleasures of reading is seeing this alteration on the pages, and the way, by reading it, you have made the book yours.

Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going. Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

Kill your television!

Cynically speaking, one could say that it is true to life to be cynical about it.

He who is grasped by the one thing that is needed has the many things under his feet. They concern him but not ultimately, and when he loses them he does not lose the one thing he needs and that cannot be taken from him.

I am sailing in uncharted water and my old life is a distant shore, still visible through the haze of retrospection but receding to a grey line on the horizon.

We have got ethical in so many places I begin to wish I had not given up geography at school.

What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion; what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully.

The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.

What a pity to see a mind as great as Napoleon's devoted to trivial things such as empires, historic events, the thundering of cannons and of men; he believed in glory, in posterity, in Caesar; nations in turmoil and other trifles absorbed all his attention ... How could he fail to see that what really mattered was something else entirely?

Kimi zaman penceredeki manzara, duvara as?lm?? bir tablodur yaln?zca; kimi zaman oda, orada olmam? de?il, bütünü görmemi engelleyen, a?açlar aras?nda bir kabuktan ba?ka bir ?ey de?ildir.

Il y a des personnages qui sentent que leurs sens les séparent du réel, de l'être. Ce sens en eux infecte les autres sens.

Not knowing how to rid ourselves of our history, we shall be relieved of it by those happy peoples who have none, or next to none. And those happy peoples will impose their happiness on us.

Der Mensch lebt und stirbt in dem, was er sieht, aber er sieht nur was er träumt.

Quem é mais estranho a si do que aquele que se sente a ver o que vê?

J'ai connu un être bizarre qui croyait tout ce qu'il lisait dans un certain journal, et rien de ce qu'il lisait dans un autre. C'était un original ; enfermé depuis.

Ce qui m'intéresse n'est pas toujours ce qui m'importe.

A painter should not paint what he sees but what should be seen.

That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

Nothing is more natural than mutual misunderstanding; the contrary is always surprising. I believe that one never agrees on anything except by mistake, and that all harmony among human beings is the happy fruit of an error.

There is no theory that is not a fragment, carefully prepared, of some autobiography.