Quotes About Perspective

Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.

How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.

The leader has to be practical and a realist yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.

We usually see only the things we are looking for- so much so that we sometimes see them where they are not.

There is thus a conservatism of the destitute as profound as the conservatism of the privileged, and the former is as much a factor in the perpetuation of a social order as the latter.

Strength of faith, as Bergson pointed out, manifests itself not in moving mountains but in not seeing mountains to move.

Though the web of history cannot be unravelled into separate threads without destroying it, a certain amount of subdivision of the subject is, for practical purposes, essential.

History does not consult the convenience of historians, though some of them are not always aware of it.

only a fool would argue with a fool!

Women ignore history. Always think it will be different for them.

Everyone is in an individual relationship, but perceives it as group effort. My relationship with you is not the same as your relationship with me. The eyes can never see their own face.

Narrative is the frame upon which we hang selected swaths of experience in order to construct a shelter of meaning.

A smart person ought to be smart enough to see clearly the limitations of his species.

To put it aphoristically, no experience can feel meaningful to a nihilist—that is, to someone who has already decided that life is meaningless.

I thought in over a thousand years I'd seen all there was to see.

Until the twentieth century, Western art had traditionally portrayed the world in a three-dimensional perspective, using recognizable images in a familiar way. Abstract art broke with that tradition to show us the world in a completely unfamiliar way, exploring the relationship of shapes, spaces, and colors to one another.

It's a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even smells the same. You realize what's changed, is you.

Benjamin, we're meant to lose the people we love. How else would we know how important they are to us?

I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you`re proud of, and if you find that you`re not, I hope you find the strength to start all over again.

I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

To know a country you must see it whole.

That is what you love a friend for: the ability to change your angle of vision, bring back your best self when you feel worst. And speak the truth -- but without malice. Loving candour is the secret of friendship.

Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.

We're programmed for suffering, not joy. The masochism is built in at a very early age. You're supposed to work and suffer - and the trouble is: you believe it.