Quotes About Comparison

Elsewhere is a negative mirror. The traveler recognizes the little that is his, discovering the much he has not had and will never have.

And Marco's answer was: 'Elsewhere is a negative mirror. The traveler recognizes the little that is his, discovering the much he has not had and will never have.

If one starts to draw comparisons between what is and what is not, it is the poorer qualities of the former that strike you, the impurities, the flaws; in short, you can only really feel safe with nothingness.

an archer, the moment he thinks he's experienced, is lost; every lion we encounter in our brief life is different from every other lion; woe to us if we stop to make comparisons, to deduce our movements from norms and premises.

Elsewhere is a negative mirror. The traveller recognises the little that is his, discovering the much he has not had and will never have.

Sözlerim, senin etraf?nda hangi ülkeyi kurarsa kursun, bu saray?n yerinde kaz?klar üzerine kurulmu? bir köy de olsa, meltem sana çamur dolu bir nehir a?z?n?n kokusunu da getirse sen, hep kendi durdu?un yere benzer bir yerden göreceksin onu.

if your cart is empty and the others are full, you can only hold out so long: then you're overwhelmed by envy, heartbreak, and you can't stand it.

It is pointless to ask whether the new ones are better or worse than the old, since there is no connection between them, just as the old post cards do not depict Maurilia as it was, but a different city which, by chance, was called Maurilia, like this one.

Ogni libro nasce in presenza di altri libri, in rapporto e confronto ad altri libri.

If you compare yourself with the limitations that came afterwards, if you think of how having one form excludes other forms, of the monotonous routine where you finally feel trapped, well, I don't mind saying, life was beautiful in those days.

L'altrove è uno specchio in negativo. Il viaggiatore riconosce il poco che è suo,scoprendo il molto che non ha avuto e non avrà.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "El allá es un espejo en negativo. El viajero reconoce lo poco que es suyo al descubrir lo mucho que no ha tenido y no tendrá" (Italo Calvino)

Fu una batosta dura per me. Ma poi, che farci? Continuai la mia strada, in mezzo alle trasformazioni del mondo, anch'io trasformandomi. Ogni tanto, tra le tante forme degli esseri viventi, incontravo qualcuno che «era uno» più di quanto io non lo fossi: [...]. Tutti costoro avevano qualcosa, lo so, che li rendeva in qualche modo superiori a me, sublimi, e che rendeva me, in confronto a loro, mediocre. Eppure non mi sarei mai cambiato con nessuno di loro.

Contemporaries cannot be good judges.

He cannot repress a strong feeling of envy for that man who expresses himself with such methodical self-confidence.

Reading," he says, "is always this: there is a thing that is there, a thing made of writing, a solid, material object, which cannot be changed, and through this thing we measure ourselves against something else that is not present, something else that belongs to the immaterial, invisible world, because it can only be thought, imagined, or because it was once and is no longer, past, lost, unattainable, in the land of the dead...

Latin was not a hard topic at all compared to romance, from what I could see.

As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that-thank Heaven-nobody is reporting in this fashion on us.

They were, indeed, giants in the land in those days—because, of course, giants get their prominence partly by comparison with one's own height. Gulliver, after all, wasn't a giant until he came to the world of the Lilliputians. I

we shall be interested in showing that despite the liberal use of traditional phraseology modern liberalism not only is a different religion from Christianity but belongs in a totally different class of religions.

If you made a better rat than a human, it's not much to boast about, Peter.

If God could make angels, why did he bother with men?

So he was good-looking and he had a great set of thighs. Chickens had nice thighs, too.

I like everything perfect. Everything has to be neat. My sister is 5, and she's more messy than I am. I make my bed every morning, everything's perfect. My shoes are all arranged. It's sad. I'm a little like Ray, a little bit.