Quotes About Perspective

There is nothing sacred about universality which makes the shared automatically better than the unshared.

If pain were all that mattered, it would be as important to protect the rabbits from the foxes as to protect the Jews from the Nazis.

People often ask me how I make things funny. I don't make things funny.

About 15 years ago I went though a period of a year or so when I just couldn't find anything good. My wife noticed I was having trouble reading menus. I bought some cheap reading glasses in a drug store. I got home and suddenly all these books that weren't good were good.

Not giving a shit, she decided, is like the defrost option on a car's heater that miraculously unfogs the windshield, allowing you to see where you're headed.

Maybe we're just seeing a tiny corner of reality—the corner we want to see. But if somehow we could "turn" and look at what's behind us—we might see something so strange, we wouldn't understand it in a million years.

The only way to communicate is to understand what it is like not to understand. It is at that moment that you can make something understandable.

Epictetus, I think, said not to be concerned with death, because life is the presence of feeling and emotion and awareness, and death is the absence of all of that, which means you won't have any awareness. So why worry about it ?

There's no such thing as neutral education. Education either functions as an instrument to bring about conformity or freedom.

There is no such thing as a neutral educational process

When Mark Twain was told in 1905 by the librarian of the Brooklyn Public Library that copies of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn had been removed from the shelves of the children's room, he replied, "I wrote Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn for adults exclusively, and it always distresses me when I find that boys and girls have been allowed access to them. The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean.

Measure not God's love and favour by your own feeling. The sun shines as clearly in the darkest day as it does in the brightest. The difference is not in the sun, but in some clouds which hinder the manifestation of the light thereof.

It should be the art of Christians to present death as a passage to a better life, to labour to bring our souls into such a condition, as to think death not to be a death to us, but the death of itself. Death dies when I die, and I begin to live when I die. It is a sweet passage to life. We never live till we die.

Sometimes you get so close to someone you end up on the other side of them.

What can you know about a person? They shift in the light. You can't light up all sides at once. Add a second light and you get a second darkness, it's only fair.

Bird 1: This is the wrong story. Bird 2: All stories are the wrong story when you are impatient.

I take off my hands and I give them to you but you don't want them, so I take them back and put them on the wrong way, the wrong wrists.

What can you know about a person? They shift in the light. You can't light up all sides at once.

History is painted by the winners.

From the landscape: a sense of scale. From the dead: a sense of scale.

There's a black dog and there's a white dog, depends on which you feed, depends on which damn dog you live with.

I take off my hands and I give them to you but you don't want them, so I take them back and put them on the wrong way, the wrong wrists.

I have told you where I'm coming from, so put it together.

To them he is a mirror, but to you he is a room.