Quotes About Perspective

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "El mapa no es el territorio" (Alfred Korzybski)

There are two ways to slide easily through life: Namely, to believe everything, or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.

Woman is the lesser man, and all thy passions, match'd with mine,Are as moonlight unto sunlight, and as water unto wine.

Much have I seen and known; cities of menAnd manners, climates, councils, governments,Myself not least, but honor'd of them all;And drunk delight of battle with my peers,Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy.I am a part of all that I have met;Yet all experience is an arch wherethroughGleams that untravel'd world.

I am a part of all I have seen.

In the real world, it is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

A clash of doctrines is not a disaster--it is an opportunity.

There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.

Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.

It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.

Everything of importance has already been seen by someone who did not discover it.

of the limited perspective always includes some additional factors of the background. The entity is then experienced in a wider finite perspective, still presupposing the inevitable background which is the universe in its relation to that entity.

No matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney.

Photography is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.

The artist does not see things as they are, but as he is.

Ah, what shall I be at fifty, should nature keep me alive, if I find the world so bitter when I am but twenty-five?

Es curioso, normalmente el tiempo recorta el tamaño de los recuerdos y los hace menos impresionantes en su alegría o en su tristeza".

A cada uno su pena, pero a todos la alegria

By which I mean that he saw in commonplace events the movement of greater tides than others saw.

So convinced was he that the external world was the result of a vast deception practised upon him by the gross senses, that when he stared at a great building like St. Paul's he felt it would not very much surprise him to see it suddenly quiver like a shape of jelly and then melt utterly away, while in its place stood all at once revealed the mass of colour, or the great intricate vibrations, or the splendid sound—the spiritual idea—which it represented in stone.

It is, of course, extremely interesting to look back across the years questioningly, wonderingly, objectively, without detachments, though seeing "objectively" does not necessarily imply seeing truthfully.

It was so easy to be wise in the explanation of an experience one has not personally witnessed. ("The Wendigo")

And each, believing he was utterly and finally right, damned with equally positive conviction the rest of the world.