Quotes About Perspective

Buying cars and writing novels do not change our biochemistry.

Imagined orders are not evil conspiracies or useless mirages. Rather, they are the only way large numbers of humans can cooperate effectively. Bear in mind, though, that Hammurabi might have defended his principle of hierarchy using the same logic: 'I know that superiors, commoners and slaves are not inherently different kinds of people. But if we believe that they are, it will enable us to create a stable and prosperous society.

It and the other online giants tend to view humans as audiovisual animals – a pair of eyes and a pair of ears connected to ten fingers, a screen and a credit card. A crucial step towards uniting humankind is to appreciate that humans have bodies.

It's relatively easy to agree that only Homo sapiens can speak about things that don't really exist, and believe six impossible things before breakfast. You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven. But why is it important? After all, fiction can be dangerously misleading or distracting.

Unlike lying, an imagined reality is something that everyone believes in, and as long as this communal belief persists, the imagined reality exerts force in the world.

History's Biggest Fraud

Our hands full or not: The same abundance. Our eyes open or shut: The same light.

in front of any painting, figurative or non-figurative I felt more and more that the lines and all their consequences, the contours, the forms, the perspectives, the compositions, became exactly like the bars on the window of a prison. Far away, amidst colour, dwelt life and liberty. And in front of the picture I felt imprisoned, and I believe it is because of that same feeling of imprisonment that van Gogh exclaimed, 'I long to be freed from I know now what horrible cage!

In the distance,far over there, only the eyes can travel when the body is weary.

Everybody in their own imagination decides what scary is.

Doesn't it look as though a genius is actually a person who has figured out a different way to think?

I don't believe in one ideal beauty.

The best way to travel abroad is to live with the locals.

My dad doesn't get any of my jokes. He laughs at them, but he doesn't understand them. He's just laughing because people around him are laughing.

There are reasonable limitations. I believe I can't fly. I believe I can't touch the sky.

I always say, I'm certain I changed 'Watchmen' less than the Coen brothers changed 'No Country for Old Men.' I'm certain of it. But you don't hear the Cormac McCarthy fans, like, up in arms about it. They should be. It's like an amazing Pulitzer Prize-winning book.

Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.

Sometimes you get a flash of what you look like to other people.

In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.

Madmen always think it's the others who are mad.

Blaming TV as an abstract entity is nonsensical. It's our hand on the remote. There's a world out there outside the tube.

Nothing is fair. The most one can hope is for things to be logical.

Se g?sesc oameni în sat care, la opt guri, au o singur? lingur?. ?i-o trec din mîn? în mîn?. Noi, se cheam? c? sîntem oameni cu stare. Avem patru-cinci linguri în cas?...

How long a minute is, depends on which side of the bathroom door you're on.