Quotes About Perspective

Nu e de ajuns s? spui c? timpul domne?te asupra lumii: lumea e timpul.

Inima î?i avea ra?iunile ei, ?i ra?iunea le cuno?tea.

Toate regimurile li se par bune, în afara celor care au c?zut. ?i le plac revolu?iile când ei sunt cei care le fac.

Ce-ar fi putut face, ?i unul ?i cel?lalt, cu libertatea de gândire? ?i cu toleran?a? Fiindc?, ?i unul ?i cel?lalt, se considerau de?in?tori ai adev?rului.

nici unul din noi nu este nimic altceva decât ceea ce lumea din jurul lui a hot?rât c? este.

universul nostru era dominat de o idee, ?i poate numai de una, dar ea ne f?cea s? ne sim?im foarte siguri pe noi. For?a acestei idei venea în totalitate din simplitatea ei. ?i anume c? lucrurile sunt ceea ce sunt.

Pablo Picasso once remarked, 'One starts to get young at the age of sixty.

But the ultimate question is, Do the eyes receive other things than what the mind projects on them; aren't they really mirrors reflecting the mind's emissions? Perhaps we live in a world invented by ourselves.

As proof that HOW we see things matters, Gen. Montgomery took a preprepared text that had been deemed an innocuous complement to his American troops and delivered it in such a way that his condescension prompted more division than unity.

Right, right," I say, knowing that, one, I'll never be anywhere near one hundred and seventy feet deep, and two, I'll never forget I can't breathe without air.

If I have viewed them from a certain angle, it is because, seen from there, that is how they looked--which may be due to prismatic distortion, but which is therefore what they also are, though unaware of being it.

If man is, or is searching to be, omnipotent, I am willing to accept Chicago's gigantism; but I should like the opposite to be accepted as well: a city which would fit in the hollow of one's hand.

Temos de rir. Senão a tragédia vai nos fazer voar pela janela.

Personally, I believe the Koran is more trustworthy than Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, he said" - Jean Genet, Jean Genet in Tangier

Personally, I believe the Koran is more trustworthy than Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, he said

If we behave like those on the other side, then we are the other side. Instead of changing the world, all we'll achieve is a reflection of the one we want to destroy.

É costume dizer-se que o Homem é feito de células e sangue. Mas, na realidade, ele é como as folhas das árvores. É preciso que o vento lhes sopre para se ouvir o seu cantar.

Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?

Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.

When the world is tipping beneath you and you are tumbling even when you are sitting, even when you are sleeping (especially when you are sleeping), any place is the same as any other place.

was a skill she had always inwardly marveled at when she discovered it in one of her patients, the smooth transitions and fancy footwork with which someone took a nugget of non-negotiable fact, modified it on the spot, and handed it back, an altogether new and tangible animal

people with different ideas from one's own were not the enemy; they were simply people with different ideas. Hearing them out carried, he supposed, some small potential for having one's mind changed, but it was far more likely to strengthen the opinion you already had, so why all the fear?

And it's that impulse to negate our own impressions that is so astonishingly powerful.

But we can't really do anything about what they say when we leave the room. We'll never be able to control that. And we shouldn't try. Our job is just to…well, be in the room while we're there, and try not to think too much about where we're not. Whatever room we happen to be in, just, be there