It’s a secondhand world we’re born into. What is novel to us is only so because we’re newborn, and what we cannot see, that has come before- what our parents have seen and been and done- are the hand-me-downs we begin to wear as swaddling clothes, even as we ourselves are naked. The flaw runs through us, implicating us in its imperfection even as it separates us, delivers us onto opposite sides of a chasm. It is both terribly beautiful and terribly sad, but it is, finally, the fault in the universe that gives birth to us all.
Katherine MinTags: life beauty parents perspective vision world
Why then should witless man so much misweene
That nothing is but that which he hath seene?
Tags: perception perspective faith
While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.
Dorothea LangeTags: perception photography perspective vision cameras
Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.
Steven WrightTags: humor perspective walking
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
Robertson DaviesTags: reading books perspective architecture rereading
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
Bertrand RussellTags: certainty questioning perspective presumption
If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.
George CarlinTags: humor perspective humanity humour philosophie
A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.
Richard AvedonTags: truth art photography perspective portraits accuracy inaacuracy portraiture
We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them.
John IrvingTags: perspective self-discovery mistakes revelation
Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small.
Corrie ten BoomTags: inspirational perspective proportion
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