Quotes about Perspective

The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of the philosopher, and laughed over the strange perspective of the landscape that lies beneath him. If they really knew who he was, they would tremble. For Chuang TsÇ" spent his life in preaching the great creed of Inaction, and in pointing out the uselessness of all things.

The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

You might see nothing in him. I see everything in him.

Let those who have not walked as we have done, In the red fire of passion, those whose lives Are dull and colourless, in a word let those, If any such there be, who have not loved, Cast stones against you

The fact is that we look back on the ages entirely through the medium of Art, and Art, very fortunately, has never once told us the truth.

Looking around his hotel room not long before expiring: This wallpaper is killing me. One of us has to go.

He has certainly not been paying me compliments. Perhaps that is the reason that I don't believe anything he has told me.

The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.

I would merely beg you not to be too much bowed down by grief. What seem to us bitter trails are often blessings in disguise.

It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.

To live in happiness, you must know some unhappiness in life.